-----John Drury wrote: -----

>My questions to all of you is not so much what could be wrong
>(although if you have ideas, that would be great also), but, we are
>considering a new robot and are hoping to be able to use or reuse our
>existing LTO4 tapes. Right now it has about 80 scratches so if we
>were to goto a second library, I should be able to have both defined
>to TSM and move the data from one to the other after putting some of
>the scratches in the new library and labeling/initializing them until
>all data is in the new library and then I can light the old one on
>fire (j/k) !

If and when you install a new library, you will not need to move the
data from volume to volume; you will be able to move the volumes
with their contents intact. The sequence of events for this would
be as follows:

Define the new library and the associated path.
Stop all tape activity.
Record the status (scratch or private) of each volume.
Check all volumes out of the old library.
Delete paths to drives in the old library.
Delete drives from the old library.
Move the drives and volumes physically to the new library.
Define the drives in the new library.
Define paths to the drives.
Update device classes that used the old library to use the new library.
Check each volume into the new library with the appropriate status.
Resume tape activity.
Delete the path to the old library and the library.