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DELL PowerVAult TL4000 Tape labelling and cataloging in VEEAM 9.



ဒီ Document မွာ ေတာ့ Tape ေတြကို Barcode Label မကပ္ပဲ အရင္သံုး၊ ေနာက္မွ Label ျပန္ကပ္ရတဲ့ အတြက္အဆင့္ေတြနဲနဲ ပိုမ်ားသြားပါတယ္။ စတည္းက Labelling လုပ္မဲ့သူေတြအတြက္ကေတာ့ မလိုတဲ့ အဆင့္ေတြ ေက်ာ္ၿပီး ဆက္လုပ္သြားရံုပါပဲ။
ကုမၸဏီေသးေတြမွာ Tape backup ဆိုတာ မ်ားေသာအားျဖင့္ မသံုးၾကသလို တခ်ိဳ႕လညး္ Cloud System ကို အသံုးမ်ားလာၾကပါတယ္။ သံုးရင္ေတာင္ Auto loader Library ေတြမ်ားေတာ့ ဒီလိုမ်ိဳး Labelling ဆိုတာ တစ္ႏွစ္မွာ တစ္ခါေလာက္ပဲလုပ္ရတာမ်ားပါတယ္။
ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေနာက္ဆံုးလုပ္ခဲ့တာ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့သံုးႏွစ္မွာဆိုေတာ့ ခုျပန္လုပ္ေတာ့ အကုန္လံုးနီးပါး ေမ့ၿပီး အစကေန ျပန္စဥ္းစားရတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကိုယ့္အတြက္လည္း Notes ေလးျဖစ္ေအာင္ အျခားလိုအပ္တဲ့သူေတြလည္း Share လို႕ရေအာင္ ဒီ Document ေလးကို ျပဳစုၿပီး အားလံုးကို ေ၀မွ်လိုက္ပါတယ္။

Step 1.  From VEEAM console check the tape media status :
In this example: I replaced the barcode label in all used-tapes.
Used tapes become offline and label tape showed “Unrecognized” , we need to fix it.


How to label barcode:
Go to the below link;  configure/resize the page as necessary and generate pdf, then print.


Sample print out page.


When the Barcode Sitcker ready,
Go to VEEAM and make sure all the tapes are ejected from the Tape Drive;




Generally, VEEAM Slot Number and Tape Library Slot number can be matched accordingly.
NAS 04 VEEAM Slot 1 = Tape Magazine 4 Slot 34
Open Tape library console: 172.20.0.22 (se…..) and take note the matching between VEEAM Slots and all the magazine/drive/tape status to prepare labelling. I print out the Slot Inventory page from
Dell PowerVAult TL4000 Tape Library web console:
Monitor Library\Inventory

When everything ready,
DELL Tape Library console\Manage Library\Release Magazine
Choose LEFT (1-Below & 2-Up)
Choose RIGHT (3-Below & 4-UP) to labelling/replace the each tape from magazine.
Check the status from the “System Status” from both physical Tape Library
and Web UI.



Now go to EACH VEEAM BACKUP SERVER \ TAPE INFRASTRUCTURE
Remove offline tapes from catalog.
Re-Inventory the barcode labelled tapes

All done.