Ya.  You're right. 

As a long-time six-character user, I never made the connection that media ID
& barcode, while usually the same in a 6-character environment, might have
to be different with longer barcodes.

Mea Culpa.

I'll just go over here and watch now...

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Bedros
Geyoghlian
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 4:03 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark - Broomfield, CO; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Barcode length issues


At 09:35 AM 7/26/2004, Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
>Wait!
>
>8 character barcodes are supported - at least in v4.5 & up and, IIRC, v3.4.
>
>6-character-only used to be the rule but that's been changed.
>
>See the Media Manager Guide under "Configuring Media Identification Rules"
>(p 175 in the v4.5 MM Guide) for how to change to add 8 character rules.

For some reason I'm not finding that section in the documentation available 
from VERITAS' site.  I've checked multiple MM Guides and other versions of 
the 4.5 Guide are producing errors in Acrobat Reader.  Can you type/FAX the 
paragraph?

I think what you're looking at is the number of characters NetBackup can 
actually use in creating the bar code.  NetBackup 3.4 only was able to use 
the last six characters of a bar code for its media ID.  Starting w/ 3.4.1, 
NetBackup allows you to assign any of the characters on a bar code (as long 
as the bar code isn't too long) to create a media ID but you're still 
limited to six characters for that media ID.

Hope this helps.

- Bedros

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bedros R. Geyoghlian                    Mobile: 408.504.3856
Technical Instructor and Consultant     FAX   : 510.372.0128
Geyoghlian & Associates                 bedros.geyoghlian AT sbcglobal DOT net
------------------------------------------------------------------------


_______________________________________________
Veritas-bu maillist  -  Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu