Media Pools and Serial Numbers

[BobLon]

I'm using Brightstor ArcServe R11. According to the manual, when you create a media pool and you have a barcode reader in your tape library, the barcode number will be used at the tape serial number instead of a number from the range indicated in the the media pool setup. However, mine is using the number from the media pool range and NOT the barcode number. How do I tell it/set it to use the barcode number? There aren't many options when setting up a medial pool.

Thanks,
BobL.

 

[Cyklops]

ARCserve uses both the barcode (which is the serial number) AND the tape name (according to the media pool you use, custom, GFS or handmade). There is no way to workaround this unless you script it.

regards

 

[BobLon]

Yes, that WAS my understanding, that the barcode would become the tape serial number. But it did NOT. the barcode number is 0000016, yet the tape serial number is 1200000, as per the media pool settings. I WANT it to be the barcode number. How do I do that?

Thanks,
BobL.

 

[GSC]

When you create a media pool arcserve will assign a base serial number, I think the default is:

DLY: 1000000
MLY: 1200000
WLY: 1100000

If you go to your media pool and highlight one of your pools you will see this information in the bottom right corner. The only thing that you can modify here is the "Serial Number Range".

ARCserve uses these serial numbers to make a difference between the DLY,MLY and WLY tapes. If you want to use your barcode numbers (which I presume are all in one sequence) there is not any difference between them.

Yes, offcourse you can fiddle around with the tapes and format them and rename their serial numbers and so on.
You could probably find a registry hack for it as well.

BUT:

If it ain't broken don't try to fix it.

Cheers,
GSC

Common sence is not so common anymore

 

[davidmichel]

First off read the faq in this forum under the Tape Engine section on How ARCserve uses Barcodes.

Next I have only seen this happen when the barcodes were added after the tapes had already been introduced to ARCserve. If that is the case then do a quick erase plus on the tape and then stop and restart the tape engine.