Amanda-Users

Re: Labels and Barcodes

2002-08-15 18:38:51
Subject: Re: Labels and Barcodes
From: Stephen Carville <stephen AT totalflood DOT com>
To: Jason Greenberg <jg AT execulink DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 13:25:09 -0700 (PDT)
On 15 Aug 2002, Jason Greenberg wrote:

- What's the difference between labels and barcodes?  Why, when I label
- tapes, does the VolumeTag="" not show up for that tape?

To amanda, a label is the information in the fist part of a tape.  It
identifies what backup set the tape belongs to, when it was last used,
etc.  Labels have nothing to do with the 'Volume Tag" which are from
the barcodes.

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-- Stephen Carville
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DPSI (formerly Ace USA Flood Services)
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