Is the same true for labeling tapes too?

--- Dave Mussulman <mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 08:41:52AM -0500, Fowler,
> Carter wrote:
>
> > You can also specify the device(s) to use for
> inventory purposes.  The
> > command would look like the following in a Win
> environment...
>
> >
> >  nsrjb -Iv -f \\.\Tape0 -f \\.\Tape1 -f \\.\Tape2
> -f \\.\Tape3 etc...
> >
> > So, if you have 4 drives in your jukebox and its
> set at 3 for
> > parallelism by default, you can effectively use
> the above command to
> > utilize all devices to inventory.  It's the long
> way around but it
> > bypasses the need for modifying the jukebox
> parallelism.
>
> Wow.  Every once in a while I learn a gem on this
> list that really makes
> my setup better or teaches me something great about
> Networker.  This tip
> will save me hours of manual time!!  I've been
> inventorying our
> non-barcoded jukebox with the unix nwadmin interface
> as long as I've
> been doing backups for our group (about a year and a
> half now.)  With
> nwadmin, it inventories with one drive, and cannot
> do non-contiguous
> slot ranges without running it multiple times.  But
> now....
>
> nsrjb -I -S 12-20 -S 44-53 -S 59
>
> saves me sooo much time.  Not only does it use as
> many drives as it can
> (but I could force it above if necessary,) and
> operates much, much
> quicker... I only have to do one inventory command
> and walk away.  It's
> cleaner than the point/click GUI interface, and
> works much better for
> me.
>
> Thank you so much, Networkers!  I'm really glad I
> found this list.
>
> Dave Mussulman
>
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