On Wednesday 13 July 2005 21:58, Morten A. Middelthon wrote:
> Alan Brown wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Morten A. Middelthon wrote:
> >> I'm having trouble getting bacula's automatic labelling working like I
> >> want it to. I have created three types of pools, inc, diff and full:
> >
> > Bear in mind that the maximum supported by most barcode readers is 8
> > characters, so it is a bad idea to have tape labels longer than this -
> > bacula demands that the barcode match the label.
> >
> > It may not seem to matter at the moment, but in future it can raise all
> > sorts of headaches if you move to a tape drive or changer with barcode
> > support in it.
>
> I have no problem limiting the label to 8 chars, as long as bacula
> labels them the way I want to :) I'm writing to a 1.5TB RAID5 disk
> array, so I have no plans of going over to a tape drive solution. Even
> if I did I would use different labels for those.
>
> Still, the problems remains, bacula doesn't append the volume number
> (eg. 00001) to the label when I use variable expansions....
Please read the manual. It is very clear on this point.
Bacula does not append the volume number when using variable expansions.
Anything else would not be what most people want.
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