On 5/22/09 10:15 AM, Tom Birkenbach wrote:
What do you use as a tape labeling convention?
My tape library is configured to automatically label the tape the same as
its barcode.
Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.
Tom,
My system is also configured to use the barcode as the tape label. The method I use is one
that I saw mentioned on this mailinglist. The barcode contains an Lx at the end (L2, L3, L4)
which indicates whether it is an LTO-2, LTO-3, or LTO-4 tape. I purchase the tapes with
barcodes attached, and I use the first two digits to indicate the year the tapes are purchased
(so I'm using 09 this year) and that gives me four digits to sequence through for the year -- I
don't even use 1000 tapes a year, so allowing 10000 seems like it has some potential for growth :-)
Alternatively, you can use mminfo as follows:
mminfo -q 'location=JUKEBOX_NAME' -r 'volume,barcode,olabel,labeled,recycled'
Which will tell you for each volume that is in your tape library named "JUKEBOX_NAME" when you
first labeled it, last labeled it, and how many times it has been recycled. You can use that
to find those tapes that are old enough or have been cycled enough times that they need to be
removed from service before they fail on you.
Hope that helps...
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