If I have a tape library with 50 tapes. I erase them all and let Arcserve label them with the date/time stamp at the beginning of thier use. Arcserve will only have 6 different names until all 50 tapes are used. One name for each drive. Also these tapes are read by the library by barcode tags. The question is, if I have to go back 6 months to find a file, how do I make my search easy. Arcserve will not print a report that logs the tape label and the barcode information together. This would be the most logical. I would have a report that says barcode tape 00073 was recorded on 04/13/2002 and so on. I can not find such a report. The only way I know to log it is to do it by hand. Write each tape down as it is used, logging the date and barcode. Anyone have any ideas as to how this could be set up better?
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Labeling-Need a Logical Thinkers Help
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I think that the barcode reader and arcserve automatically makes those associations. all you have to do is select to restore the file form how long ago and it will automatically find it for you ( if set up correctly). However is it is out of date then you will have to re-merge the tape into the database to try to find the file. This is where you can just see that the bar code numbers (hopefully starting from low and going to high numbers) and these will most likely be the ones that need to be remerged.
It does get tricky though.
good luck
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It does get tricky though.
good luck
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