> 3) Putting the info on the label is not a problem - it was done here with
> over 60 LTO1 Tapes and never a problem. And again, part of our backup
> procedures state that in the event of a major disaster, we need to identify
> easily our most crital systems that need to be restored. In my case, we
> label them from their corresponding volume pools - its no big deal, and
> keeps everyone happy. Does not take that long either :-)

So the only thing I never understood from your original post was *what*
information was sufficient or necessary to put on the tapes.

You could put client names on them, but in many situations you'll have
multiple clients on a volume.  How many can you list?  3?  10?  

You could put a volume pool on the tape, but I don't know if that gives
you the granularity you want. 

Datestamps may or may not be useful if you need to find the "latest"
copy.

There's lots of commandline tools to find and generate all that
information for each tape.

My other comments about the catalog were just an aside because I haven't
understood what information you had as a target.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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