> Oops. I didn't do that :) Looks like -w will move one tape at a time to 
> the mail slot on my jukebox. That's grand but I wasn't about to do that 
> for all 58 tapes. Instead I unlocked the magazine doors to the jukebox 
> and replaces all tape magazines in one shot. Afterwards I used nsrjb -I 
> to have Networker inventory the jukebox before running nsrjb -L to label 
> the new tapes.

That's fine.  Both procedures should blank the location.

While networker will prefer a nearline (in jukebox) volume over others,
if it's completely out of tapes I think it'll issue a request to go and
grab an appendable one offline.  So marking the tapes full (or at least
readonly) as you've suggested is preferred.

However I might change the location on them after I did the inventory.
That way I would be sure that it wouldn't mess with the field during the
inventory.  (I think you're still safe if you do it first, though).

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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