Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges Exporting or Exchanging Magazines and Cartridges
December 2019 User Guide—Spectra T200, T380, and T680 Libraries
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Prepare the Entry/Exit Pool
After the storage management software moves the cartridges out of the
entry/exit pool, export empty magazines to provide empty chambers for
future import operations (see Export Magazines from a Partition on
page 233). Be sure to leave at least one magazine with empty slots in it in
the entry/exit pool. These empty slots are used for the cartridges that the
library moves from the storage pool when the storage management
software ejects cartridges from the partition. Over the course of time,
normal operations typically result in the entry/exit pool containing at least
one magazine with empty slots.
If you plan to import additional cartridges, export empty magazines left in
the entry/exit pool after the storage management software moved all of the
previously imported cartridges to the storage pool. The resulting empty
chambers are needed for future import operations (see Export Magazines
from a Partition on page 233).
If there are no magazines with empty slots in the entry/exit pool, follow the
steps in Exchange Magazines or Cartridges in a Partition on page 235 to
exchange the full magazines for magazines that have empty slots.
EXPORTING OR EXCHANGING MAGAZINES AND CARTRIDGES
Overview This section provides instructions for exporting or exchanging
all of the magazines and cartridges in a storage partition’s entry/exit or
storage pool or all of the maintenance magazines in a cleaning partition.
Notes: If you want to export or exchange a specific magazine or a
specific cartridge, use the Advanced option, as described in
Using the Advanced Import/Export Options on page 239.
If you want to export or exchange a small number of
cartridges, you can also use the Inventory screen to move the
magazine containing the desired cartridge to the TAP so that
you can remove or exchange an individual cartridge and
then move the magazine back to its original location (see
Moving Cartridges Within a Partition on page 254).
If the entry/exit pool does not contain a magazine with sufficient empty slots, the
storage management software halts its eject operation. You must exchange the full
magazines in the entry/exit pool for empty ones, as described in Exchange
Magazines or Cartridges in a Partition on page 235, before retrying the eject
operation.
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.
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