If your TSM server runs Windows, go to the Setup Wizard under Label
Media. Using the wizard there will only label one tape at a time, but it
will make use of all the tape drives at once, rather than one at a time.
That's a much faster process.
 
--
Mark Stapleton (mark.stapleton AT cdw DOT com)
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Collyer
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:36 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Labelling mass volume of tapes with Label Libvol
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a new TS3500 library with 2500 scratch tapes.  I'm running a
> LABEL
> LIBVOL command within TSM 5.5.1.1 but unfortunately it is labelling
one
> tape at a time.  I'm using the barcode as the source.
> 
> Is there a way to label more than one tape at a time?  It's a good
> waste of
> time and plenty of drives!
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Andrew
> 
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