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Re: [Networker] Recycle to/from other pools
2008-04-11 12:27:18
Francis Swasey wrote:
I have experimented with using the Recycle to/from other pools option to
have a scratch pool that will automatically feed tapes into my clone
pools as required (allowing my operations staff to work on things other
than daily checking the number of empty volumes in the clone pools and
manually moving tapes from scratch into the clone pool).
The problem I have stumbled across is that because (for historical
reasons) we use the label templates (instead of having every tape
labeled with its barcode), I have found that when a tape is recycled
from the scratch pool into one of the clone pools that it retains the
label it had in the scratch pool. Hence I now have an offsite tape
labeled "Scratch.0561" instead of "Offsite.10101" which is very bad for
all the historical reasons we didn't choose to use barcode labels.
Is there anyone that is using Recycle to/from other pools and is also
using label templates and has it working?
Feel free to tell me it can't work the way I want too...
I think you are in a minority of users who have bar codes but don't
match them to labels.
If you had to say what was the correct behaviour in this situation, I
think it would be a difficult and controversial decision. Some would say
that it was totally wrong for a tape's label to change after
relabelling, as it would make it very difficult to track the tape.
Others might say that when relabelling a tape the label should follow
the label template. Whichever way you decided you would not please everyone.
Is it nor possible for you to start matching barcodes? In my experience
it is the best option except for where barcode readers are not
available, such as on standalone drives or very low end libraries.
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