Storage Slots; Element Status; Barcodes And Mic (Memory In Cartridge) - HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package User's Manual & Technical Reference

by one, while in case of multiple mail slots, a particular number of slots can be used in one enter/eject
operation. For consistency and to avoid duplicating processes you should ensure that use of the mail
slot/s is achieved through Data Protector Express user interface.

Storage Slots

The Storage Slots folder displays the number of available slots. Each slot may contain blank (new)
media, media containing Data Protector Express data, or media containing unknown (non-Data Protector
Express) data. Data Protector Express inventories the media in the slots and displays the information
about the media and its status in the view. This allows you to view all kinds of media, not just the media
used by Data Protector Express, but you will not be able to select non-Data Protector Express media for a
backup or restore job. If the tape is not present in the catalog the slot status will say 'Invalid — not in
database'. Media in this state are candidates for use in a job if the Media AutoFormat rule is set to 'auto
format all media'. Otherwise they will not be chosen for use until they are imported, erased, or formatted.
NOTE:
It can take a long time to inventory the tape media in a tape library, which is why Data Protector Express
usually performs a "light inventory" rather than running an identify job on all the slots in a loader. See the
"Inventory Process" section below for more information.
Additional media slot configuration is accessed via the Element Status dialog for that slot, which is
accessed by a right click on the desired slot. For example, you can use this to disable slots (using the
'Reserve' option) and identify a cleaning cartridge.

Element status

The known states are ...
• Empty: No media is present in the element.
• Valid: Media is present, media is in the database, and media has been identified physically by
mounting the media. This is also the state that occurs after a format job.
• Invalid: Media is present, media has an error associated with it, such as: NOT IN DATABASE.
This is the default state for media in a loader.
• Unknown: This is the default state of any element in a library set when an inventory is allocated,
and when a user sets the state on the element status property of an element in the database.
• Cleaning: The media is a cleaning cartridge and has an associated number of remaining
cleaning cycles.
There are also two "probable" states. The purpose of these states is to allow for a quick inventory of a
loader, which makes some good guesses as to the location and current state of media, without having to
mount each media in the loader to identify it absolutely.
• Probably Valid: Media is present, media during the previous initialization pass was valid, or
media has an associated barcode for which an association was successfully made during
initialization.
• Probably Invalid: Media is present; media during the previous initialization pass was invalid.

Barcodes and MIC (memory in cartridge)

If the tape library supports barcode and/or MIC (memory in cartridge), the details are added to the Data
Protector Express catalog. The barcode information is hidden by default; to display this detail, right-click
anywhere in the column title row to see available column headings and click on Media barcode to make
the barcode information visible in the slots view.
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