How to Label a Volume in an Autochanger

Select a backup device in an autochanger from the Devices attribute, select a label template in the Pools resource, and make sure there are volumes in the autochanger. Then start the volume label operation.

To label volumes in an autochanger from the command line, enter the following command at the shell prompt:

# nsrjb -L 

Because it takes Backup some time to label the volumes in the autochanger, you might want to perform the volume label process when you do not need to back up or recover files.

Backup starts to label the media in the autochanger with the label displayed in the Starting With attribute. The First Slot and Last Slot attributes determine the range of slots containing volumes that Backup labels.

If you label a specific range of volumes, the name in the Starting With attribute must match the label template. If you label a single volume, you can use any name; it does not have to match the label template. To label a single volume, put the same value in the First Slot and Last Slot attributes.

When a valid Backup label already exists on the media that you are trying to label, Backup displays a confirmation message to keep you from accidentally relabeling the media. When a volume is relabeled, you cannot recover its contents under the previous label. When you select OK to confirm, the volumes in the slots are loaded, labeled, and unloaded.

Unmount all volumes in the autochanger to prevent you from accidentally relabeling existing volumes when you reload the autochanger with new volumes.

For more information on labeling volumes see "Storage Management Operations (Labeling and Mounting) ".