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DNANOBEL
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14 years ago
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Label Volume altering

Hi,

 

I have abit of a problem:

 

When I run the inventory to see my tapes in my Dell Powervault TL2000, and select the tape I want the label to be altered, and change the label and run the job, the description of the tape vanished, and the media label gets reset to default name instead of the name I entered in the "Label volume".

I don't get an error btw...

Is this a known issue or can somebody assist, because I sure can't fix it at the moment.

 

Thanks in advance!

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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    14 years ago

    This is strange.  You said that you are not using barcode labels, yet your screenshot shows that you are using barcode labels for both your tape and the cleaning tape.  There are entries in the barcode label column.  Since your tape has a valid barcode label, you can just re-label it.  It will always use the label of the barcode label.  As I have said previously, with barcode labels, you have to change the barcode label to rename the tape.

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  • DNANOBEL's avatar
    DNANOBEL
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Thanks for the fast reply, but this isn't the issue.

    I ran the label job, and yet the label isn't changed to the label i entered while the tape is still in the unit.

    I figured to run another inventory job after the label job, and the default tapename is displayed again.

     

    Regards

     

    Footnote: It's not a new tape, it's an excisting tape in the media set, and i have no intention to format the tape.

  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    Ok so have you used the "rename" operation against the tape instead of the "label" operation?

  • DNANOBEL's avatar
    DNANOBEL
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    Actually, I tried both.

    After the labelling job the default tape name came up, so I tried to renaming the tape (what had thesame result).

    Any idea's what could be wrong?

  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    Moderator
    14 years ago

    After you have re-labeled the tape, how about deleting it from BE and then doing an inventory on it?  This have the effect of making it a "new" tape to BE.

    To delete the tape, associate it with the Retired media set and then right-click on it to delete.

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    As an aside, you should consider using barcode labels with your library.  They are much more efficient.  Read my article on this subject

    https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/using-barcode-labels-why-and-how

    If you are using barcode labels, you just have to put a new barcode label onto the tape to "rename" it.  You just need to do a scan and that's it.

  • VJware's avatar
    VJware
    Level 6
    14 years ago

    Just curious - if you use BEMCMD, does it still exhibit the same behaviour or do the media labels actually change ?

  • DNANOBEL's avatar
    DNANOBEL
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    The media labels actually changed once i tried the label job, but not to the correct name, instead i got the default name of the tape.

  • DNANOBEL's avatar
    DNANOBEL
    Level 4
    14 years ago

    Hi,

     

    If I understand correctly you suggest to take the tape out of the Media set , label it, and put back in the Media set?

     

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    Thanks for the suggestion, but at the moment there is no time to re-invent the wheel, but I will definatelly consider it :)