Skip Farmer said:
>
>In your case it b/c the systems are on the same library I can understand the
>frustration. But in a distributed environment that has many libraries it is
>extremely useful.

Why is the behavior extremely useful/necessary? If we have a centralized 
catalog of media, and we don't duplicate media id's or barcodes, why can't the 
individual media servers update a certral database, rather than keeping their 
own?  Why do I need to run a bunch of commands to migrate tapes from one robot 
to another?  Maybe I want to *easily* migrate tapes out of one robot and into 
another in another location, have the robot simply re-inventory itself, or use 
vmadm/other commands to import tape into a robot.

Why is it so difficult, and what is the design philosophy behind it?

Thanks.

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