>
> Networker will label tapes automatically when it needs a tape and there is
> one available that has expired.
>
> It seems to me that if I leave 15 tapes in the jukebox that have expired, it
> would take longer to run the backup because every time it needed a tape it
> would have to stop and label a one and than resume the backups.
>
> Is this true?

Yup.  But the label shouldn't be a long operation.  Normally the big
time is spent on the robotic pick, drive mount, and label read.  It
takes longer, but not much longer.

The relabel consists of a few writes, a rewind, a label verification,
and some database cleanup.  Prior to (5.5?), the relabel could spend a
*long* time cleaning up the database, especially if you had an
incremental tape with several hundred small savesets.

After that was fixed, I've never really noticed a problem with doing
the relabel during the backup.

> The reason is that I am taking a long weekend and I am putting 60 tapes in
> for the 4 days I will be gone, but since I have two pools I don't want to
> run into the situation where I have tapes in one pool that are labeled but
> empty and another pool that needs tapes.

Right.  Have you tried this and had problems, or are you just wondering
because you don't normally let it happen?

Are the pools set up to be able to recycle tapes from each other?

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