Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges Importing into a Storage or Cleaning Partition
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Click Stop Discovery on the Media Lifecycle Management Tools screen
to stop a Media Auto Discovery or PreScan operation (see Stop the
Discovery Process on page 288).
Click Pause PostScan on the Media Lifecycle Management Tools screen
to pause the PostScan operation for one hour (see Pause the PostScan
Process on page 297).
Auto Discovery
Media Auto Discovery and PreScan are background
operations that
use the drives in a partition to discover newly imported
LTO cartridges and add them to the MLM database. The discovery process
cannot begin while the hosts are actively loading cartridges into or
unloading cartridges from the drives. If you import cartridges during this
time, the library posts a failure message stating that no drives are available
to perform the discovery process.
Either wait until the library is idle before beginning the import or manually
start the discovery process for imported cartridges when the library is idle.
See Discover Cartridges Manually on page 286 for instructions.
IMPORTING INTO A STORAGE OR CLEANING PARTITION
Overview During normal operations, magazines containing data
cartridges are typically imported to a storage partition’s entry/exit pool
and then moved to the storage pool using your storage management
software. This process ensures that the media inventory maintained by the
storage management software is accurate.
An exception is the first time that cartridges are loaded into a storage
partition. Unless your storage management software requires you to use
the software to perform all imports, importing magazines directly into a
storage partition’s storage pool simplifies loading a storage partition for
the first time. After the cartridges are imported into the storage pool, they
are available for immediate use by the storage management software.
Import Requirements
Partitions You must have one or more partitions defined before you can
import magazines into the library. See Chapter 2 – Architecture Overview,
beginning on page 49 for information about partitions and pools.
Chapter 6 – Configuring and Managing Partitions, beginning on page 177
provides detailed instructions for creating partitions.
Cartridges and Magazines All cartridges are imported into the library
using magazines. Before beginning, have on hand the cartridges that you
want to import into the partition. If necessary, prepare the cartridges as
described in Preparing Cartridges for Use on page 218.
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