Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread Dan Langille
On Fri, January 21, 2011 12:48 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > -Original Message- > From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:51 PM > To: Arunav Mandal > Cc: Dan Langille; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bac

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread John Drescher
> How do I relabel a tape that is already labeled with Bacula? I want to > change the labels to Barcode labels. > I believe you need to erase the tape first. Dan's site has info on how to batch that somewhere in the Bacula section. http://www.freebsddiary.org/topics.php#bacula John

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread Arunav Mandal
-Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 2:51 PM To: Arunav Mandal Cc: Dan Langille; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes > So that means if I use the barcodes I don't ha

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread John Drescher
> So that means if I use the barcodes I don’t have to do "update slots scan" > after I change tapes? > You still have to do update slots. But that is less than 10 seconds instead of having to load each tape. John -- Spec

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread Arunav Mandal
-Original Message- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 1:17 PM To: Dan Langille Cc: Arunav Mandal; bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes > However, why do you want the labels to differs?  If

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread John Drescher
> However, why do you want the labels to differs?  If you are using this > in an autochanger, Bacula will quickly become confused.  The tape > library will be reading the barcodes and telling Bacula what they are. > I believe it is a bad idea to not use your barcodes in your autochanger. The reaso

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/21/2011 4:21 AM, Arunav Mandal wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Dan Langille [mailto:d...@langille.org] > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 3:19 AM > To: Arunav Mandal > Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes > &

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-21 Thread Arunav Mandal
users] Autorename of tapes On 1/20/2011 4:28 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: >> >> I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there >> any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 1/20/2011 4:28 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > > On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: >> >> I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there >> any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I >> can't use label barcodes. > > My previo

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there > any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I > can't use label barcodes. My previous past contained the wrong URL. Try this one inste

Re: [Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
On Thu, January 20, 2011 4:12 pm, Arunav Mandal wrote: > > I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there > any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I > can't use label barcodes. The best way is write a script. This might have something fo

[Bacula-users] Autorename of tapes

2011-01-20 Thread Arunav Mandal
I have 30 tapes to rename in the order of LTO5-001 to LTO5-050. Is there any way to rename them automatically? The Barcode label is different so I can't use label barcodes. Arunav. -