132T Inventorys after adding tapes-Veritas isn't refreshed

Question

Why is it that our PowerVault 132T performs a painstaking inventory after I add tapes to the magazine, but this inventory is not reflected in Veritas 9.1?  Is there a way to cancel the annoying task of loading and unloading all 23 tapes?

dell-richard g · Answer

Any time you manually add tapes to the library, Backup Exec (BE) will need to know about the newly added cartridges. To update BE, you have to right-click on the rebot icon in the BE device manager, than click on INITIALIZE. Once that is completed, click on SCAN. This is the only way BE will know that a cartridge has been added/removed.

When cartridges are manually added, the library has to scan for all slots to see which cartridges are installed. I will double check if there is a way to avoid the library doing an inventory.

Jerry1000 · Answer

Thanks, that was the answer I was looking for.  Running the initialize job corrects the entries in the partition table without performing and physical activity on the robot.  I was running the Inventory job on the partitions to get the correct information, which forces the loading and unloading of tapes.   The 132T is a replacement for our 128T, which has been moved to a different location.  The 128T had the barcode reader on the picker which saved all of this loading/unloading.  I guess you get what you pay for?

esscrau · Answer

Well this is a long time after this was originally posted, but did you ever fine out if you can turn off that initial slot check when tapes are put in using the magazines?

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