UPDATE LIBRARY (Update an EXTERNAL library)
Use this syntax to update an external library.
Privilege class
To issue this command, you must have system privilege or unrestricted storage privilege.
Syntax
Parameters
- library_name (Required)
- Specifies the name of the library to be updated.
- AUTOLabel
- Specifies whether the server attempts to automatically label tape
volumes. This parameter is optional.
To use this option, you must check in the tapes with CHECKLABEL=BARCODE on the CHECKIN LIBVOLUME command.
- No
- Specifies that the server does not attempt to label any volumes.
- Yes
- Specifies that the server only labels unlabeled volumes.
- OVERWRITE
- Specifies that the server attempts to overwrite an existing label. The server overwrites existing labels only if both the existing label and the bar code label are not already defined in any server storage pool or volume history list.
Example: Update the path name for an external library
Update an external library named EXTLIB with a new path name for the media manager.

update library extlib externalmanager=/v/server/mediamanager
update library extlib externalmanager=c:\server\mediamanager