>>>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:00:35 -0300 (BRT), Heitor Faria said:
>
> > Dear bacula users,
>
> Hello Christoph,
>
> > I think I know the answer ("not possible") but maybe someone has an idea:
> >
> > Some years ago I labeled all my LTO-6 tapes with manual printed stickers
> > "LTO6-###". As you can see, there are 5 alphanumeric characters followed by
> > 3
> > digits. The barcode standard allows this and my LTO devices never had
> > problems
> > with that kind of labels.
> > My new tape library (Overland Neo Series T48) does. Sometimes it recognises
> > the
> > labels, sometimes not. I think this is because LTO-labels should have max. 3
> > characters followed by max 3 digits followed by the LTO series number
> > (LTO###L6).
> > I would have no problem in printing new labels, but the tapes have to be
> > physically relabelled. Is it possible without loosing the tape data? (no)
>
> I think you could try to print new labels and just update the volume names in
> the Bacula SQL catalog.
> I just tried this hack with disk volumes and it worked.
> The volumes have a physical metadata like this:
>
> u/ =�BB02[5f������Bacula 1.0 Metadata
> ˥H,ZFS-Semanal-0ZFS-DiariaBackupAlinhado
>
> But it surpassed by the label name / disk volume file name.
I don't think that hack will work for tapes because Bacula needs to check that
you have the correct volume in the drive by reading the label at the start of
the tape.
__Martin
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