What type of media (media type) have my cartridges

[sea_cucumber]

Hey guys,

i am installing first time BE with a Tape Library. My configuration a TS3500 with 3592-E07 Drives with the matching cartrides "3592 Advanced Cartridge 4 TB Native Generation 3 IBM High Performance".

I bought  10 new cartrides with a new Barcode-Prefix .

But what type of media are the "3592 Advanced Cartridge 4 TB Native Generation 3 IBM High Performance" in the Barcode Rules?

[CraigV]

More of a question to be asking in the IBM forums. If they're the same tapes as the drive (ie. LTO6 drive, LTO6 tapes), then you're good to go.

Otherwise post a screenshot here...

Thanks!

[Larry_Fine]

BE only has LTO bar code rules setup by default.  Those are not LTO tape drives.  You have to use the HIC[x] section and media types, if you want to use bar code rules.  If you only have one type/generation of tape drive, then you probably don't even need to think baout using bar code rules.

[Colin_Weaver · Accepted solution]

Bar code rules are ONLY needed when you have 2 different standard of tape drives inside your library and use two different types of tape carttidge

The rules then give Backup Exec a way to use the correct tapes in the correct drives and not hit a compatibility problem.

If you obly have 1 type of tape drive with all the tapes in use compatible for both read and write operations with that type of drive then Bar Code Rules are not needed.