Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

On 12 March 2010 12:44, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

> We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are
> barcoded.
>
> I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1].

This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I
have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24
slot changer to stop doing inventory then after that I issue update
slots since I changed tapes. After that I run label barcodes and put
all new tapes in the Scratch pool.

yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4 through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all the time. Not earth shattering, but non-automatic.

> I would like to be
> able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them using
> the barcode read from the tape.
>
> Is this possible, and if so, how ?
>

I am not sure of that. Some users have done this but I do not know the details.

do you have any pointers?

> Running
> Version: 5.0.0 (26 January 2010) x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
>
> thanks!!
>
> [1] sometimes it throws some errors, tape i/o,etc, not sure it is related to
> bacula, even though it crashed bacula-sd once or twice
>

The I/O read error on unused tapes is not an error. This is actually
normal behavior.

As for crashing bacula-sd, I have never had that
happen on a label barcodes.

+1 . hasn't happened that much, just once or twice (once definitely related to this, the other i dont recall)

thx!!
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