I already wrote this previously: the error message produced by Bacula 
indicates that the user has enabled ANSI volume labels. This is unusual 
and generally not needed unless you have multiple different backup/other 
programs using the tapes.  In any case, if you explicitly enable this 
ANSI tape label option in Bacula (turned off by default), you are 
limited to 6 characters in the tape name.   Without the ANSI tape label 
option in the bacula-sd.conf file, your tape labels may be up to 127 
characters in length.

As I previously wrote, I think that the user is confusing barcodes and 
reading barcodes with the ANSI tape labels feature in Bacula.

Best regards,

Kern



On 05/05/2017 10:46 AM, Ralf Brinkmann wrote:
> Am 18.04.2017 um 04:00 schrieb Jim Richardson:
>> I must be missing something stupid.  I am using IBM barcode labels on
>> LTO7 tapes.  Bacula labeled my media, but I am unable to start backup
>> job due to error Fatal error: ansi_label.c:296 ANSI Volume label name
>> "000009L7" longer than 6 chars.
> Just looked into our old DELL PowerVault web interface. Years ago for
> the same lable length I configured:
>
>> Configure Library
>>    General
>>      Barcode Label Length Reported To Host = 8
> I included the two trailing digits for the tape type into the label length.
>


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