Tape Labeling and Management

2004-10-03 Thread Brian E. Seppanen
any really good tape labeling processes, utilities out there. Right now I have a large collection of tapes that have been labeled at one time or another for some purpose that they are no longer used for. I want to come up with some way of labeling these tapes, quickly and efficiently

Re: Tape labeling question

2002-07-22 Thread Harri Haataja
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 07:47:37PM +0100, Mark Cooke wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 19:22, Gene Heskett wrote: In our experience, when the tape is recognized by the drive after being inserted, the drives compression setting is restored to whatever was in effect when the tape was last

Re: Tape labeling question

2002-07-21 Thread Mark Cooke
On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 19:22, Gene Heskett wrote: [..] In our experience, when the tape is recognized by the drive after being inserted, the drives compression setting is restored to whatever was in effect when the tape was last labeled. So as long as as hardware compression is turned

Re: Tape labeling question

2002-07-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 21 July 2002 14:47, Mark Cooke wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-21 at 19:22, Gene Heskett wrote: [..] In our experience, when the tape is recognized by the drive after being inserted, the drives compression setting is restored to whatever was in effect when the tape was last labeled. So as

Tape labeling...

2000-12-20 Thread David Klasinc
Banzai! If I have a tape with some label, how can I rename it? amlabel won't let me do that. (Don't tell me that mt -f /dev/nst0 erase is the only option, plz :)) -- David Klasinc TurboLinux Inc. - Received SIGTERM. Shutting down.

Re: Tape labeling...

2000-12-20 Thread Peter Murphy
Hello David, At 2000-12-20 10:12:47 +0100 (Wednesday), David Klasinc wrote: If I have a tape with some label, how can I rename it? amlabel won't let me do that. Use the -f option of amlabel. From the amlabel man page... NAME amlabel - label an Amanda tape SYNOPSIS amlabel

Re: Tape labeling...

2000-12-20 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Dec 20, 2000, Peter Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello David, At 2000-12-20 10:12:47 +0100 (Wednesday), David Klasinc wrote: If I have a tape with some label, how can I rename it? amlabel won't let me do that. Use the -f option of amlabel. From the amlabel man page... But note

Re: Tape labeling...

2000-12-20 Thread David Wolfskill
From: Alexandre Oliva [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 20 Dec 2000 10:50:07 -0200 amlabel won't let me do that. Use the -f option of amlabel. From the amlabel man page... But note that this will erase the contents of the tape. In fairness, (just about?) any other time the tape is open()ed for

tape labeling scheme

2000-11-14 Thread Denise Ives
How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? I can label a tape that had a full dump on Nov1 as daily111 but I can't label a tape that had a full dump on Nov 24th as daily1124. Yes - amlabel -f daily 111 or use a letter to represent the month - NO - amanda@sundev1 [amanda] %

Re: tape labeling scheme

2000-11-14 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 18:03:01 + (GMT) From: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? I can label a tape that had a full dump on Nov1 as daily111 but I can't label a tape that had a full dump on Nov 24th as daily1124. I'm sorry, but I think

Re: tape labeling scheme

2000-11-14 Thread John R. Jackson
How can I identify amanda tapes by level of dump? ... Jonathan and David are correct that normally you would not do this as Amanda may scatter dump levels all over the place w.r.t. the tapes. But they have clearly not been following the "Saga of Denise" in the list :-). In summary, Denise is

re: sugestion for tape labeling Yea or Nea?

2000-11-14 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 21:56:18 + (GMT) From: Denise Ives [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is an admin here who suggested I modify the labelstr. Will this work? - you should modify labelstr to "$[0-9][0-9][0-9]" Changing the labelstr may be useful. But since it's a (Perl) regex, I'd be

re: sugestion for tape labeling Yea or Nea?

2000-11-14 Thread Joi Ellis
On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, David Wolfskill wrote: There is an admin here who suggested I modify the labelstr. Will this work? - you should modify labelstr to "$[0-9][0-9][0-9]" Changing the labelstr may be useful. But since it's a (Perl) regex, I'd be rather surprised if a string with