Bacula will use the barcode labels as the label for the tape.
The label of the tape and the barcode must match, or it will not work,
in my exigence. I am using barcodes on all my tapes. I had to relabel
all the tapes to match the barcodes...
Once it is working though, it is a breeze to swap
I'm using an ADIC FastStor22 library with Bacula right now with no
problems. I bought this
library on eBay to get away from the ancient Exabyte library that I had
been using. Although
it was not mentioned in the listing, it seems that the library includes
the optional barcode
reader. None