> > It required searching the bacula-users posts to discover > > that I could do "label slots=1-12 pool=scratch barcodes". > > There's no need to label blank tapes. Just "add" the entries to the > appropriate pools, apply matching barcodes and update slots. When bacula > encounters a blank tape which is has no record of having written to > before, it will throw a read error and then label it. > I do this with my 2 drive 24 slot autochanger: 1) Add/Remove tapes 2) update slots 3) label barcodes And put all new tapes into the "Scratch" pool. Also you can run label barcodes with already labeled tapes in the changer, bacula will just skip over them in this process.
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