>
> Darren Dunham wrote:
>
> >>During testing, I'm -w(ithdrawing) two volumes into the CAP, then I
> >>-d(eposit) them back into empty slots, then I -I(nventory) them.
> >
> >
> > Whoops.  My testing and my description got a little screwed up here.
> > Apparantly I was also changing the location of the tapes after the
> > withdrawal.  According to some email I received, that is the reason that
> > the inventory forces a load.  Disappointing, but that's that.
>
>
>         Then I'm sure it depends on particular type of the library and the way
> how it refreshes its internal inventory after the tape change.
> I've never watched such behavior with our Spectralogic jukebox.
> Even if I swap tapes that come from an off-site storage (the location is
> undefined) they are never being loaded as long as the barcodes are
> already in the media database.

Unfortunately, "location" is an overloaded term here meaning both the
place the tape is physically, and the contents of an entry in the
database.  I'm assuming by (the location is undefined) you're referring
to the database field.

Apparantly having the "location" attribute undefined or blank in the
database is fine for doing the inventory update via the barcode.
However if it's populated with some other string (which I was doing
during some of the tests), then it forces the tape load.

When I mentioned "changing the location of the tapes" in the followup, I
meant the location attribute in the media database, not the physical
location of the tape.

I haven't absolutely tested this yet, but it matches with what I saw
during my first round of tests.


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