Using Label Template Components

Backup is shipped with preconfigured label templates that correspond to the preconfigured pools. If you choose to create your own templates, you can include as many components in the Fields attribute as necessary to suit your organizational structure. However, it is a good idea to keep the template simple with few components. For example, if you create a label template for your Accounting Department, you can customize your label template in several ways, depending on the size of your storage system and media device capabilities. Table 4-2 illustrates several ways you can use components to organize your labels.

Label Template Components

TABLE 4-2

Type of Organizational Structure
Sequential

Storage oriented (for example, 3 storage racks with 5 shelves each, each shelf holding 100 tapes)

Fields
(Components) AcctFull 001-100
1-3
1-5
001-100

Separator Period

Dash

Resulting Volume Labels AcctFull.001
(100 total labels) 1-1-001
This label is for the first tape in rack 1 on shelf 1. (1,500 total
labels)
AcctFull_000_a (side 1)
AcctFull_000_b (side 2)
(2,000 total
labels)

AcctFull 000-999 a-b

Two-sided media (for example, optical devices)

Underscore

Storage Management Operations (Labeling and Mounting)

The internal label on a volume contains a unique name that Backup uses to track and recognize storage media. In the media database, Backup refers to volumes by their volume labels. Backup uses the media database records to determine which volumes are needed for backing up or recovering data.
Every volume belongs to a pool. Each pool has a matching label template associated with it. Volumes are labeled according to the rules of these label templates. Label templates provide a way to consistently name and label volumes so you do not have

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Device and Media Management

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