On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 11:03:18PM +0100, Davina Treiber wrote:
> MIchael Leone wrote:
> > I run NW 7.3.2jumbo on Win2003, with a HP SDLT320 tape library (48 slots, 
> > 4 drives). I'd like to write a script to re-label only certain tapes 
> > (i.e., if a tape in any slot is in pool CLONE and the mode is RECYCLEABLE, 
> > I want to re-label that tape, keeping it in the same pool. But not 
> > re-label a tape in pool CLONE that is APPENDABLE).
> > 
> > I've searched, but don't seem to see a way to automate this, because I 
> > would need to query NetWorker for the mode and pool of each tape in each 
> > slot, so there would be no user interaction required. Can anyone provide 
> > clues or pointers to how I might be able to accomplish this? (if it can be 
> > done, that is)
> 
> Why would you want to do this? The recyclable tapes will be relabelled
> when they are needed, there is no need to do this manaully.

I've had sites do this before to create a 'scratch' pool.  It wasn't
directly useful for Networker's behavior, but they liked being able to
see all expired tapes appear in a single pool rather than scattered.  Of
course you lose the ability to read from the tape later (this can be
good or bad).  

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