EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
03/27/2008 05:34:12 AM:

> Vernon Harris wrote:
> > Can you tell me if the predefined Default label template is assigned 
to a
> > user created volume pool, will the backup try to use tapes in the 
Default
> > Pool when running backups??? 
> 
> Not at all. Label templates have no effect on pool selection whatsoever.
> 
> In my experience label templates are rarely required since most backup 
> environments have jukeboxes and bar codes. Most times when I create a 
> pool I use the default template, since there is no point in creating 
> extra ones.

Allow me to chime in with my rebuttal. :-) I have 2 sites - one has a 8 
tape autochanger, one has a single tape drive (it's a small site). Neither 
has a bar code reader, so I use the label templates there. For my 2 other 
sites, they have barcode readers, so I don't use the label templates 
there. (of course, at those sites, the barcodes I now get from my offsite 
tape storage vendor have too many digits (12) than can be read by the 
barcode readers in those tape libraries (8), so I have to manually label 
those tapes anyway ....)

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