> If one places new barcode labels on recycled tapes that contain
> expired data, enable them for writing, import into the jukebox
> and perform an inventory, what will Legato do?
(Hi, Michael!)
Since the barcode is new, it will not match anything in the media
database. So Networker will load the tape in a drive and verify any
label on it.
After it verifies the label, it will change the barcode associated with
that volume to the one it just read on the volume.
> Will it detect a written label on the tape?
Yes.
(By the way, if this wasn't a *new* barcode but an old one, it would
assume the tapes were the old volume. However once it tried to use the
volume, it would verify the label at that time and realize it had the
wrong tape.)
> And if so will it balk at reusing the tape and new label, or just
> merrily use the tape as it would a new one?
It will recognize it as a regular old tape with a new barcode.
> All of the old tapes I've begun recycling are in the Default
> pool and it's a royal pain relabeling them for use in other
> pools (such as NDMP), which is the norm now.
I'd probably write a script to relabel some of them in bunches.
It is possible (although almost certainly unsupported) to change the
Default pool settings for "Recycle to other pools" to be "yes". Then
you might not need to force recycle them (just have them available and
on-line).
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Darren Dunham ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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