> the barcodes must have some benefit from a human-convenience > point of view, as opposed to Amanda itself.
I found barcode labels to be very useful if you have other (non-amanda) tapes in the library. We use our reader for the occasional archive by hand, and it is very reassuring to see, in the mtx listing, human-readable labels. I understand that tape changing is also a somewhat faster process if barcode labels are used because it doesn't need to do a load-read-unload cycle for every tape, but I'm not sure about that. Alex -- Alexander Jolk / BUF Compagnie tel +33-1 42 68 18 28 / fax +33-1 42 68 18 29
