Understand How STA Handles Changes to the Tape Environment

Changes or anomalies in the tape system environment (such as removed drives or media, removed libraries, duplicate or missing media, and so on) can affect STA data.

• Understand Data Retention and the Tracking Timestamp
• How Incomplete Exchanges Affect STA
• Why Some Values May Be Dimmed
• What Happens to Data When Drives and Media Are Removed
• What Happens to Data When Libraries Are Removed
• What Happens to Data When an SL8500 Library is Moved to a New Complex
• How STA Handles "Missing" Media
• How STA Handles Duplicate Volume Serial Numbers
• How to Map Host and STA Drive Identifiers