Julien, The answers to your questions are in the original post. So i know that I need to inventory; I place the new tapes(6) into the drive, then Inventory the Robot, but when I do it doesn't work. It said there are no new changes. I am assuming that is because the origial media is still listed, even though it has been physically removed.
So If I create a new Volume pool, I could then move my last set of backup tapes to it. Do the tapes need to be in the drive to do so? I am assuming so, so that the move can be recorded in the header on the tapes.
At this point, once they are move to a new volume pool, I can eject my tapes (manually) at dlt700 and insert new tapes. I would then reinventory robot and label accordingly?
Then after these tapes are full, do the same thing as above, move tapes to the new volume pool created above and so on......