OK, thanks for the feedback.   My response was mostly for Ralf, which is why I referred to "the user" i.e. you in my responses, but I wasn't 100% sure.  It is good to know that the problem is resolved.

Best regards,

Kern

Kern, thanks for the the reiterate. I solved this problem in April with your first response. I removed references to IBM labels and after a delete and readd everything is working properly.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kern Sibbald [kern AT sibbald DOT com]
Received: Friday, 05 May 2017, 3:59AM
To: Ralf Brinkmann [ralf.brinkmann AT wemhoener DOT de]; Jim Richardson [jim AT securit360 DOT com]; bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net [bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net]
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Issues with IBM Labels

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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