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Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges Importing into a Storage or Cleaning Partition
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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Entry/Exit Pool For daily operations, TeraPack magazines containing data
cartridges are typically imported or exported using a storage partition’s
entry/exit pool. When using the entry/exit pool for importing/exporting,
the following must be true:
 The entry/exit pool must have sufficient empty chambers available for
importing new magazines. If you need to import new magazines and
all of the chambers in the entry/exit pool are full, you must export one
or more magazines to make space for the new magazines (see Export
Magazines from a Partition on page 233).
 The entry/exit pool must have sufficient empty slots available to
accommodate any cartridges that the storage management software
ejects from the partition. If all of the slots in the entry/exit pool are full,
either move newly imported cartridges to the partition’s storage pool,
leaving empty slots in the entry/exit pool, or export one or more full
magazines and replace them with magazines that have empty slots.
 You can import a magazine containing a cleaning cartridge into the
partition’s entry/exit pool and then use the Inventory screen to move
the cartridge to a drive for cleaning (see Moving Cartridges Within a
Partition on page 254).When the cleaning is complete, move the
cleaning cartridge back to the entry/exit pool and export the magazine
from the entry/exit pool.
Storage Pool A storage partition’s storage pool contains all of the
cartridges that can be accessed by the storage management software for the
purpose of writing or reading data.
 If you are importing magazines into the entry/exit pool and using your
storage management software to move the cartridges to the storage
pool, the storage pool must have sufficient empty slots to accommodate
each cartridge imported into the entry/exit pool.
 If you are importing directly into the storage pool, the storage pool
must have sufficient empty chambers to accommodate the magazines
you plan to import.
 Any chambers in the storage pool that do not contain magazines are
inaccessible to the storage management software. You can, however,
import magazines into the empty chambers using the library’s
BlueScale user interface.
Important
Make sure that the magazines you export are not filled with cartridges that you just
imported but are not yet moved to the storage pool using your storage
management software.