Prepare For The Export Or Exchange - Spectra TFinity User Manual

Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges

Prepare for the Export or Exchange

 If you are exchanging cartridges or magazines, have on hand the
 Recommended If you want to export cartridges from a storage
 If you are exporting directly from the storage pool of a partition with
When exporting tape cartridges from a partition with SlotIQ enabled, Spectra Logic
Important
recommends that you use your host software to move the cartridges to the Entry/
Exit pool before exporting.
 Exporting a magazine directly from the storage pool is not
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prepared data cartridges and properly labeled magazines (see
Preparing Cartridges for Use on page 227).
partition, use your storage management software to eject the desired
cartridges from the partition's storage pool. You can then export the
cartridges from the entry/exit pool. Using this method to export
cartridges from a storage partition ensures that the media inventory
maintained by the storage management software remains accurate.
The following steps describe the process for ejecting cartridges from a
storage partition using the entry/exit pool.
1. Use your storage management software to tell the library to eject the
cartridges from the library.
2. The library moves each cartridge out of the partition's storage pool
and into an empty slot in a TeraPack magazine already stored in the
entry/exit pool.
3. When all of the requested cartridges have been move to the entry/
exit pool, the library reports to the software that the export request
is complete.
4. At your convenience, you can then export the magazines in the
entry/exit pool from the library using controls on the Import/Export
TeraPack Magazines screen of the user interface and either the
center TAP, left TAP, or right TAP.
SlotIQ enabled, run the advanced utility Resolve SlotIQ Virtualized Drive
to Slot Moves to resolve all virtualized drive to slot moves before
exporting magazines. The tape inventory presented to the host
software, or displayed on the Inventory screen, may not match the
physical location of tapes in the inventory. The TeraPack Magazine
Contents field on the Advanced Import/Export screen can be used to
determine the physical contents of a chamber.
recommended unless you are exporting all of the magazines from a
partition. This process is often referred to as a "bulk export."
If you choose to export magazines directly from the storage partition's
storage pool, be sure to use your storage management software to
update its media inventory after completing the export (see Updating
the Storage Management Software Inventory on page 264).
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