Sometimes NetWorker may not want to cooperate when it comes to moving media in and out of drives, or around in a tape library. While nsrjb -n will do the trick for some media load operations where you don’t want to mount media, it’s not always available. Sometimes you will need to do a media [...]
In order to speed up jukebox operations, NetWorker maintains a cache, or a map, if you will, of the current expected jukebox state based on the operations that have happened since it was last fully queried. This avoids having to do (time) costly SCSI probes before every operation.
(This, for what it’s worth, is why you [...]