This is supposed to be a new feature added with the NB_341_1 patch. The
example they give in TechNote 236271 seems to fit my case exactly. Am I
misreading it?

http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/236271.htm

Daniel Haun

On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:37:02AM -0500, David A. Chapa wrote:
> I've never seen NetBackup do an auto-create larger than six characters.  I
> have manually created a media id with eight...
> 
> And I have had labels with greater than six characters on them and it simply
> cut the preceeding numbers/letters off.
> 
> David
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Daniel 
> Haun
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 5:44 PM
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] configurable media ID generation
> 
> 
> I'm having trouble getting the new configurable media ID generation
> working on my Netbackup server. I'm running Netbackup Datacenter on a
> single Windows 2000 server. I installed the NB_341_1 patch and placed
> the following line in my vm.conf:
> 
> MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS 0 8 1:2:3:4:5:6
> 
> Robot 0 contains LTO media with barcodes like 000001L1, 000002L1,
> etc. However, media IDs of 0001L1, 0002L1, etc. are still being
> generated. What am I missing?
> 
> Daniel Haun