How to Label an Autochanger Volume With Barcodes

A volume must have a volume label, but it does not require a barcode label. Use the Jukeboxes resource to associate barcode labels with your volumes.

To label Backup volumes with barcode labels, follow these steps:

1. Apply the barcode labels to your volumes.

2. Place the volumes with the barcode labels in the autochanger.

3. Display the Jukeboxes resource.

4. Set the Barcode Reader and Match Barcode Labels fields to Yes.

5. Label the volumes using either the Backup administration program or nsrjb -L.

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   Caution -

   Do not use identical barcode labels for any of your Backup volumes. Using identical labels defeats the purpose of using barcode labels. If you try to label a second volume with an identical barcode label and you enabled Match Barcode Labels in the Jukeboxes resource, Backup displays an error message and does not allow you to label the second volume. To correct the problem, apply a different label and begin the labeling process again.

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   If you choose not to match the volume label to the barcode label, you should create and attach volume labels to the outside of your media.

   If you choose not to have the labels match, it is suggested that you label the volumes in this manner:

1. Attach all the barcode labels to the media, then load the volumes in the autochanger.

2. In the Jukeboxes resource, set the Barcode Reader attribute to Yes, and set the Match Barcode Labels attribute to No.

   If you set both Barcode Reader and Match Barcode Labels to Yes and you forget to attach a barcode label, you receive an error message that says there is no barcode label for that volume.

3. Begin the labeling process.

   Backup uses the next available label from the label template for the volume name. Backup labels the volumes and records both labels in the media database.

4. After Backup completes the labeling process, display the Volumes resource to determine the volume label and barcode label for each volume.

5. Create your own volume labels to attach to the volumes.

   Use the information in the Volumes resource to match the correct volume labels to the barcode labels. This is the easiest way to make sure that you attach the correct volume labels to the volumes with barcode labels.