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Chapter 7 — Importing and Exporting Cartridges Importing into a Storage or Cleaning Partition
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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238).
 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265).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.