jhg Posted March 11, 2003 Report Share Posted March 11, 2003 For those of us who want to manage our own tape labels, it would be useful if Retrospect would have an option to NOT overwrite the existing label with the default volumeSequence-backupSetName label. I appreciate that the way you do things now has some merit for people who don't do much backing up, but for a larger shops with their own media management procedures it would be nice if tapes didn't get relabeled each time they're used. With this option you would be able to make up your own label name at tape initialization time, and Retrospect would ensure that the recorded label remained the same in the future. One important reason is that relabeling means someone has to write the new label on the outside of the tape. Since it changes each time the tape is used, this leads to doing it in pencil, which leads to pencil eraser crumbs, which can *REALLY* gum up tape heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 21, 2003 Report Share Posted March 21, 2003 It's a great suggestion - we're hoping to add better tape management to a future release. We consider this a valuble feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
increment Posted March 25, 2003 Report Share Posted March 25, 2003 WITH BARCODE support. Tapes with the same label as there barcode. No more waiting for retrospect to scan the media, because it KNOWS what media is there. Just for that it's worth incorporating into the product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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