We have two libraries, one manual and one robot.
To swap between the two libraries, we just update our device class
(TAPE)
from the automatic library to the manual library, oir back again.

Steven Bridge wrote:
>
> We are still at the planning stage of a first ADSM installation and
> are considering what provision needs to be made for out of action
> tape libraries. If a tape library has broken robotics, for example,
> which may take some time to fix, can a stand-alone drive be used for
> performing restores. Can you tell ADSM that a particular tape is now
> in a different 'library' ? If you have a 2nd ADSM server with its own
> tape library - is there any way to persuade this server to accept a
> tape from the broken library ?
>
> Has anyone had any experience with this sort of problem ?
> Or does everyone just ensure that they have a very good maintenance
> contract ?
>
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>  Steven Bridge     Systems Group, Information Systems, EISD
>                           University College London
>  email: s.bridge AT ucl.ac DOT uk                   tel: +44 171-504 2794