Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread Alex Chekholko
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:37:48 +1100 Norberto Meijome numard...@gmail.com wrote: Any time you add/remove tapes from the tape library, you need to do 'update slots' and 'label barcodes' in bacula. Does that not behave as you expect? -- Alex Chekholko ch...@pcbi.upenn.edu @

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread John Drescher
Yes, if you only have one drive, you need to have no jobs running in order to do 'update slots' or 'label barcodes'. I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. John

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-18 Thread Richard Scobie
John Drescher wrote: I think you can update slots with the single drive running jobs. You can not label barcodes however. I can confirm this, as I did this a couple of days ago, although watch out for the size of the emailed job report, which for me was just under 4MB and contained thousands

[Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi everyone, We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. I would like to be able to just insert new tapes and let bacula automatically label them using the barcode read from the tape. Is this

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I have had it label. When I add new tapes, I wait 5 minutes for my 24 slot changer to

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On 12 March 2010 12:44, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: We have a tape library, 7 slots, 1 drive, barcode reader. All our tapes are barcoded. I've been using 'label barcodes' with some success [1]. This should work 100% of the time. It has for me for the 80 tapes I have had

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread John Drescher
yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not,  4 through 7 Ok. Sometimes it's one failed, sometimes 2, not the same all

Re: [Bacula-users] Automatic labelling from barcodes ?

2010-03-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On 12 March 2010 13:04, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: yeah, maybe it is a timing issue , (the changer isn't the newest) the msgs didnt seem to be related to the job that was waiting, but i could be wrong. The issue is that , say, slot 1 is labelled correctly, 2 and 3 not, 4