vksmjones Posted March 2, 2005 Report Share Posted March 2, 2005 This is an add-on to my last suggestion in an effort to keep operator hands out of Retrospect. The scenario is: my operators swap out tapes for me on Saturday, but now they have to go into Retrospect and unload tapes, physically swap the tapes, then go into Retrospect again and initialize elements. I would like to be able to script an "Initialize Elements" function or be able to have "Initialize Elements" as a checkbox on a script or better yet in the schedule of a script, so that "Initialize Elements" would run prior to the actual backup job. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 8, 2005 Report Share Posted March 8, 2005 Hi Why does the user need to initialize elements? Retrospect should recognize that the media has been changed automatically. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vksmjones Posted March 11, 2005 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2005 So, Retrospect will automatically tell the library to scan bar codes after we put the new tapes in? I didn't see that happen. Does it rescan barcodes immeditately after putting in tapes or right before the next job? I'm going to have to change tapes today before I leave to see this in action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natew Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Hi Retrospect will scan the library any time it is looking for media for a backup job. You don't need to tell it to do so. Thanks Nate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jogama Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 I have the same problem: each time I replace a tape with a new one for archiving Retrospect (7.5) shows the new one as "unknown" and doesn´t give a name until archiving script runs and the tape is needed at the end of the week (my autoloader doesn´t support barcode reader). Is there any way to "force" a periodic Initialitation of the elements so the contents are updated? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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