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[Networker] Recycle to/from other pools

2008-04-11 10:36:35
Subject: [Networker] Recycle to/from other pools
From: Francis Swasey <Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:32:23 -0400
I have experimented with using the Recycle to/from other pools option to have a scratch pool that will automatically feed tapes into my clone pools as required (allowing my operations staff to work on things other than daily checking the number of empty volumes in the clone pools and manually moving tapes from scratch into the clone pool).

The problem I have stumbled across is that because (for historical reasons) we use the label templates (instead of having every tape labeled with its barcode), I have found that when a tape is recycled from the scratch pool into one of the clone pools that it retains the label it had in the scratch pool. Hence I now have an offsite tape labeled "Scratch.0561" instead of "Offsite.10101" which is very bad for all the historical reasons we didn't choose to use barcode labels.

Is there anyone that is using Recycle to/from other pools and is also using label templates and has it working?

Feel free to tell me it can't work the way I want too...

Thanks,
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Frank Swasey                    | http://www.uvm.edu/~fcs
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