Forgive me for asking, but is this based on experience? I ask because some
administrative processes aren't that graceful about unavailable tapes.
(RECLAIM STG comes to mind.)

On Friday, November 8, 2013, Shawn DREW wrote:

> I would just mark all the tapes that are not in the library as
> "unavailable", then run your "copy activedata".  When It finishes, eject as
> many tapes as you can and put in other tapes.  It will tell you which tapes
> that were needed, but were marked unavailable in the actlog.  Change the
> unavailable/readw flags around and repeat until you get through all the
> tapes it asks for.
> At the end, mark all of them readw again and rerun the copy activedata to
> catch any stragglers.
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> Regards,
> Shawn
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> Shawn Drew
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