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The purpose of the barcode labels is make the operation of the tape library easier. For example, if you want to identify the tape in a particular slot, you can now scan the slot, instead of inventorying it. When you scan the slot, the barcode reader reads the barcode label. This is a much faster than doing an inventory. When you run an inventory job on a slot, the tape in the slot will be retrieved, placed in the tape drive and the internal label is read before it is returned to the slot.
So your problems with the tape will be the same regardless of whether you use barcode labels or not.
To ensure that the correct tape is used for the correct job, you would have to set up your jobs, slots and media sets correctly.
By the way, after you opened the magazines and re-arranged the tapes, you should run a scan for the entire library after you have replaced the magazines. This will let BE identify which tape is in which slot. As described above, with barcode labels, this is a faster operation than doing an inventory job on the whole library. For example, you always put Tape 5 in Slot 5. If you now put Tape 5 in Slot 6, BE will not know this shift until you do a scan and the slot information is updated.
Also, since you are using partitions, you cannot cross partition boundaries. For example, you can put your tapes for Exchange backup in any of the slots allocated to Exchange, but not in slots belonging to other partitions. BE will not fetch tapes from partitions other than the one assigned to the job.
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