I already wrote this previously: the error message produced by Bacula indicates that the user has enabled ANSI volume labels. This is unusual and generally not needed unless you have multiple different backup/other programs using the tapes. In any case, if you explicitly enable this ANSI tape label option in Bacula (turned off by default), you are limited to 6 characters in the tape name. Without the ANSI tape label option in the bacula-sd.conf file, your tape labels may be up to 127 characters in length.
As I previously wrote, I think that the user is confusing barcodes and reading barcodes with the ANSI tape labels feature in Bacula. Best regards, Kern On 05/05/2017 10:46 AM, Ralf Brinkmann wrote: > Am 18.04.2017 um 04:00 schrieb Jim Richardson: >> I must be missing something stupid. I am using IBM barcode labels on >> LTO7 tapes. Bacula labeled my media, but I am unable to start backup >> job due to error Fatal error: ansi_label.c:296 ANSI Volume label name >> "000009L7" longer than 6 chars. > Just looked into our old DELL PowerVault web interface. Years ago for > the same lable length I configured: > >> Configure Library >> General >> Barcode Label Length Reported To Host = 8 > I included the two trailing digits for the tape type into the label length. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
