jhg Posted March 4, 2003 Report Share Posted March 4, 2003 Whenever I use a tape for a backup (DDS2), Retrospect puts its own label on it ("[volumeNumber] - [backupsetName]"). Is there any way to get Retrospect to NOT relabel the tapes? I want to give each tape a unique label that will remain constant for the life of the tape, and have Retrospect use that label name only. Jim Garrison jhg@acm.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted March 5, 2003 Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 Retrospect names tapes according to the backup set they belong to for ease of use and organizational purposes. If the backup set is called: Amy's Backup, the first tape will be called 1-Amy's Backup. When the first tape fills up, the second tape will be 2-Amy's Backup and so on. This allows the user to put in the correct tape easily and quickly for backup and restore purposes. It is not possible to change how tapes are named. You can, however, name your backup sets however you choose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhg Posted March 5, 2003 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2003 You might want to consider adding this as an option in a future version, for those of us who would like to do their own tape volume management and want consistent, unchanging tape labels. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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