Tapes not recycling to other pools

Question

Hello.

Networker 7.1.3 (yes, very old, I know) on HP-UX 11.11

All pools have "Recycle to Other Pools" and "Recycle From Other Pools" set to "Yes". No pool has any device restrictions.

There are plenty of recyclable tapes in the library, yet tapes only recycle within the same pool. Recycling to other pools is not happening.

Please help.

ble1 · Accepted Answer

Try unchecking and checking back setting (with apply after each action). There is a workflow in docs about what gets requested when, but I would expect NW would use tape ready to be recycled in library from another pool before than tape from the same pool but outside library. If that would be problem I would consider that as design issue and perhaps you could also check that.

If none of that works I would suggest to move to 7.1.4 at least and open that with support in case it doesn't work. It should be pretty straightforward job to reproduce it if this is standard issue.

ble1 · Answer

Well, that should work AFAIK so it could be some old bug... I did use that for some time in 7.2.x and 7.3.x and it worked fine for me (also under HPUX).

mreznik · Answer

I guess I didn't phrase the question correctly.Pool A has 20 recyclable tapes.Pool B has no tapes at all.Tapes from Pool A should recycle into Pool B, but for some reason they don't.

ble1 · Answer

They won't recycle to other pool if there is plenty (or even one) tapes within same pool.

mreznik · Answer

It works for me on a bunch of other servers with the same setup (NW7.1.3 and HPUX11.11) but with fewer pools and less complicated pool setups. I tried creating a brand new pool on this server just for testing, and a tape did get recycled into it. But for existing pools it doesn't work. I can't seem to figure this one out.

mreznik · Answer

Yes, all the pools are custom.

mreznik · Answer

Yes, I restarted NW several times.Problem is with a number of pools that only recycle to themselves, not to other pools. A new test pool that was created worked fine, a tape was recycled to it. It is as if NW is not considering recycling INTO these pools, but is recycling just fine out of them. I did some more testing, and on one of the attempts, NW suggested labeling a tape that was in the same pool and was recyclable, but was not in the library and had it's location field set to 'Offsite'. For Archive pools, it doesn't suggest relabeling anything, just waits for a volume.

ble1 · Answer

And perhaps silly question, did you try to restart NW? Perhaps its logic needs kick or two... Because tape did recycle to new pool problems obviously seems to be in recycle from relation from pool B according what has been discussed here... so perhaps unselecting recycle from and applying setting and then selecting it again might wake up NW too.

ble1 · Answer

I assume these are all custom made pools, right? (none of them belongs to one of already predefined pool)

mreznik · Answer

Unbelievable, but unchecking and checking back "Recycle To/From Other Pools" worked. I would love to see a logical explanation for this, but for now I'll settle for one less headache

Thank you very much!

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