EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
06/04/2010 09:53:32 PM:

> With regards to the j/b "load without mount (nsrjb -ln)", this 
> essentially tells the jukebox's robotic arm to grab a tape from one 
> of the data slots and put it into one of the drives in the jukebox.
> 
> The equivalent for a stand alone tape drive is just to manually load
> the tape into the drive, i.e. by hand.

So I found out. And boy did I feel stupid for not realizing that 
immediately. :-)

> 
> Once you manually insert the tape, then you mount the tape by using 
> the nsrmm command, or though the NMC GUI.
> 
>   nsrmm -s (server) -m -v -f rd=(storage node):drive
> 
> NetWorker will then mount the drive and try to read the tape label.
> 
> 
> If the tape volume is not in the media database, the you can label 
> and mount the tape using nsrmm again:
> 
>   nsrmm -s (server) -l  -m -v -f rd=(storage node):drive  (tape label)

In my case, the tape volume is not in the media database, and I don't want 
to re-label. I need to scan it in. Essentially importing a volume from a 
foreign Networker server.

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