I finally got around to testing this in my configuration... still not 
working as I'd want.  I added a tape to the changer, ran the add command 
to add it to the catalog and place it in the Scratch pool.  When bacula 
got around to wanting that tape from the Scratch pool it changed the 
pool to be right but didn't label it.  Instead I got a mount request.
I then noted that the tape record was...

| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes
| VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType
| LastWritten         |

|      93 | LTO278L2   | Append    |       1 |               0
|        0 |    7,776,000 |       1 |    0 |         1 | LTO-2
| 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |

Note that it set InChanger to 1 but the Slot value didn't get set.

Are there other settings I need to use to have bacula label tapes 
automatically with their barcodes?

    Bob

Alan Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Bob Hetzel wrote:
> 
>> I can't find good documentation on this.  Can you clarify the procedure
>> you follow to avoid using the label command?
> 
> If a Volume exists in the catalog, AND the tape loaded in the autochanger
> is _blank_ (generates an I/O error when Bacula attempts to read the label)
> AND there is no record of the Volume ever haveing been written to, THEN
> Bacula will automatically label the media
> 
> It's a very useful piece of coding which saves a LOT of time and effort
> when adding fresh media to pools.
> 
> AB
> 

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