EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
04/11/2008 12:24:39 PM:

> 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.

Ooo, me, me! :-) I have 3 sites that have autochangers with no barcode 
readers. So while we use the barcodes on the tapes, for our offsite 
storage vendor, I have 3 label templates set up, one at each of those 3 
sites. Otherwise, I'd have to manually label the tapes by hand-entering 
the barcodes, and of course, I don't know which one the on-site techs have 
put in ... 

Back here at HW, our tape libraries have barcode readers, so no label 
templates.

> 
> 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.

I'd vote for option 2 ...


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