Importing Into A Storage Or Cleaning Partition; Import Requirements - Spectra Logic Spectra T950V User Manual

Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges
If you do not want to wait for a Media Auto Discovery, PreScan, or
PostScan operation to complete, you can stop the Media Auto Discovery or
PreScan operation or pause the PostScan operation. For other background
operations, wait for the process to complete.
 Click Stop Discovery on the Media Lifecycle Management Tools screen
 Click Pause PostScan on the Media Lifecycle Management Tools screen
Auto Discovery Media Auto Discovery and PreScan are background
operations that use the drives in a partition to discover newly imported
LTO cartridges and add them to the MLM database. The discovery process
cannot begin while the hosts are actively loading cartridges into or
unloading cartridges from the drives. If you import cartridges during this
time, the library posts a failure message stating that no drives are available
to perform the discovery process.
Either wait until the library is idle before beginning the import or manually
start the discovery process for imported cartridges when the library is idle.
See Discover Cartridges Manually on page 264 for instructions.
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Overview During normal operations, magazines containing data
cartridges are typically imported to a storage partition's entry/exit pool
and then moved to the storage pool using your storage management
software. This process ensures that the media inventory maintained by the
storage management software is accurate.
An exception is the first time that cartridges are loaded into a storage
partition. Unless your storage management software requires you to use
the software to perform all imports, importing magazines directly into a
storage partition's storage pool simplifies loading a storage partition for
the first time. After the cartridges are imported into the storage pool, they
are available for immediate use by the storage management software.

Import Requirements

Partitions You must have one or more partitions defined before you can
import magazines into the library. Chapter 6 – Configuring and Managing
Partitions, beginning on page 160 provides detailed instructions for
creating partitions.
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to stop a Media Auto Discovery or PreScan operation (see Stop the
Discovery Process on page 266).
to pause the PostScan operation for one hour (see Pause the PostScan
Process on page 274).
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