I second the notion that numeric volume labels are in widespread use. Maybe those barcode manufacturers gave special discounts to people who ordered ranges without alphabetic characters in them. :-)
My suggested kludge actually would be the opposite of what others have suggested; namely, I would assume first that user input actually is a literal label and consider it as a potential MediaId only if no match is found. Further, although you can't do much for existing installations, we could reduce ambiguity by starting with MediaId 1000000 (rather than 1) -- so that valid MediaIds cannot be encoded in a six-character ANSI label. That's not a total cure, I've not seen longer labels in our environments. Actually, suitably desperate individuals probably could perform some SQL magic on their database now to renumber MediaIds to a less dangerous range, and avoid the risk of bacula doing something you did not intend. That's still no fix for mangling your input and refusing to do what you really wanted. ;-) Cheers, Scott Bailey scott.bai...@eds.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
