Changing labels on tapes

[ljg]

I have a number of tapes that had an old label sequence on them. I put the new label on the tape and inventoried the library - the tapes show up with the OLD tape label and they show "not in media database."

Since the library is set to manage the media itself, I thought nothing more of it, figuring the tapes would be labelled correctly when new tapes were pulled into the respective pools.

However, Legato didn't realize the tapes were available - it didn't relabel the tapes automatically - I had to manually label the tapes and put them in pools.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Rif123]

Hi,

You've done nothing wrong. That is actually the expected way networker should handle the media. The tapes has obviously been removed from the media database at an earlier stage. Now when you run an inventory, networker recognizes that there is a networker label on the tapes, but it can't find any corresponding label in the media database. To protect these tapes from being overwritten they are not used but instead show up as "Not in media database". Media with an unrecognized networker label might be a media you want to scan for import, therefore it's not a good idea to have it automatically overwritten.

To avoid this in the future you can either overwrite the networker label with something else, or you just manually label the tapes as you did this time. Relabel them is good anyway so the networker label and the barcode label matches.