AFAIK, you can always check in a tape as PRIVATE, regardless of vault
status.

I think it makes sense, but I haven't tried to do that.

It may be easier to wait for all checkins to complete, then compare the list
of LIBVOLS to the list of tapes you moved to COURIERRETRIEVE than it is to
watch each checkin complete.

  But again, I haven't tried it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Simpson [mailto:msimpson AT UKY DOT EDU]
Sent: Friday, October 25, 2002 2:31 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: drm operator scripts


At 2:04 PM -0400 10/25/02, Prather, Wanda wrote:
>I guess the other thing you could do, would be to take the list of tapes in
>VAULTRETRIEVE status, generate commands to check them in as PRIVATE , THEN
>compare the list of LIBVOLS against the list still in VAULTRETRIEVE to make
>sure they all got back.  THEN move them to ONSITE RETRIEVE.  But that will
>require some pretty messy scripting, also.

Hmm ...  Can I check in a tape as private while it's in VaultRetrieve
or CourierRetrieve? If I can do that, then I can generate a list of
tapes in VaultRetrieve, move them to CourierRetrieve, and generate
commands to check them in.  If the checkin is successful, then I
presumably have all my tapes back, and can move the whole list to
OnsiteRetrieve.  If the checkin fails, I need to go looking for
tapes. Does this make sense?
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