> On Friday 13 September 2013 07:03:57 Tony Albers wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > AFAIK you can't choose to only label "some" tapes in the library 
> when using auto-labeling. If some of the barcodes are unreadable, 
> you will run into errors.
> > 
> > What you could do, is partition your library and then set one up 
> with auto-labeling and have the other one use all the old tapes 
> using the old standards.
> > 
> > You could of course also consider staging all savesets from all 
> the old tapes to new tapes with correct barcodes, but that might 
> involve quite a lot of work ;)
> 
> I wouldn't expect problems with the old tapes even if you turn on 
> "Match barcodes". Not as
> long as you don't try to relabel/recycle them. This as the setting 
> is applied during the
> labeling process.

I'm not so worried about the relabel/recycle aspect (at this time). I'm 
more worried about tapes not inventorying, or mounting correctly for 
recovers.

And I'm still running jobs at the moment, so I don't want to change the 
library configuration to test it out, until the jobs are done. Hence the 
questions here first ...