If you are using BE 2012, you would find that you are no longer able to set barcode rules using the GUI. You have to use BEMCLI instead. Essentially, the steps are the same as before when you are using the GUI, but there are a few more steps to get the media types, etc. because you are now using the command-line.
To run BEMCLI, go to Start > All Programs > Symantec Backup Exec > Backup Exec Management Command Line Interface.
1) List the LTO media types
From the BEMCLI console, issue this command
Get-BEMediatype | Where-Object {($_.name -like "LTO*")} | Select-Object name
This will give you a list of media types
Name----LTO CLNLTO-10 (87m, 10.0GB)LTO-30 (203m, 30.0GB)LTO-50 (319m, 50.0GB)LTO-100 (609m, 100.0GB)LTO2 (609m, 200.0GB)LTO3 (680m, 400.0GB)LTO4 (820m, 800.0GB)LTO5LTO6LTO [10]LTO [11]LTO [12]LTO [13]LTO [14]LTO [15]LTO [16]LTO [17]LTO [18]LTO [19]LTO [20]LTO [21]LTO [22]LTO [23]LTO [24]LTO
The command above filters for only LTO media types. If you have upgraded to BE 2012 from an earlier release, you would not see the LTO5 and LTO6 media types. You would see something like this instead
Name----....LTO3 (680m, 400.0GB)LTO4 (820m, 800.0GB)LTO [8]LTO [9]LTO [10].....
So you would have to use another media type to represent LTO5, e.g. LTO [8]
If you want to see all the media types, then issue
Get-BEMediatype
2) Add the barcode rules for LTO4 and LTO5
First check whether there are any rules defined for your vendor by issuing this command
Get-BEBarcodeRule | Where-Object {($_.vendor -eq "HP")}
In this example, we check for HP. This command will return nothing if there are no barcode rules for HP or it may return something like the following
Vendor BarcodePrefix BarcodeSuffix MediaType------ ------------- ------------- ---------HP L5 LTO [8]HP L2 LTO2 (609m, 200.0GB)HP L4 LTO4 (820m, 800.0GB)
If you want to see all the barcode rules, then just issue
Get-BEBarcodeRule
If you have a fresh install of BE 2012, then you would get this
Vendor BarcodePrefix BarcodeSuffix MediaType
------ ------------- ------------- ---------
CLN CLN
L1 LTO-100
L2 LTO2
L3 LTO3
LT LTO3
LU LTO4
L4 LTO4
L5 LTO5
LV LTO5
LW LTO6
L6 LTO6
If your tape vendor's barcode label format conforms to the above then you can skip the next step if you want to.
3) Define the barcode rules
Suppose there are no barcode rules defined for HP LTO4 and LTO5. Issue these commands to add the barcode rules.
New-BEBarCodeRule -mediatype "LTO4" -vendor "HP" -barcodesuffix "L4"
New-BEBarCodeRule -mediatype "LTO5" -vendor "HP" -barcodesuffix "L5"
If your vendor's barcode label format calls for the prefix to be used, then the above command would look something like this
New-BEBarCodeRule -mediatype "LTO5" -vendor "VendorA" -barcodeprefix "L5"
If you are using another media type as a substitute for LTO5, then your command would look something like this
New-BEBarCodeRule -mediatype "LTO [8]" -vendor "HP" -barcodesuffix "L5"
4) Get the name of your robotic library
Issue this command to get your robotic libraries
Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice
5) Get the names of your tape drives
Assuming that you have one robotic library
Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice | Get-BETapeDriveDevice
Suppose the that the first tape drive is a LTO4 tape drive and the second (or last) tape drive is a LTO5 tape drive. Issue the following commands
$lto4tapedrive = Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice | Get-BETapeDriveDevice | Select-Object -first 1
$lto5tapedrive = Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice | Get-BETapeDriveDevice | Select-Object -last 1
6) Set the read/write media types
By default, all the available media types are set as readable and writable for each tape drive. If you want to specify that the tape drive can only read/write some media types, but not all, then you would have to replace the default list with the readable/writable media types. You got to replacing the list of writable media types first. This is because when a media type is writable, it implies that it is readable.
For the LTO4 tape drive, issue the following command
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto4tapedrive -WritableMediaType LTO4, LTO3 -ReadableMediaType LTO2
The above command adds LTO4 and LTO3 as the list of writable media types. This also implies that LTO4 and LTO3 are readable media types. It then add LTO2 as an additional readable media type. You can also set the readable and writable media types seperately, e.g.
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto4tapedrive -WritableMediaType LTO4, LTO3
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto4tapedrive -ReadableMediaType LTO2
If you do want to do the readable and writable media types seperately, remember to do the writable media types before you do the readable media types.
Each time you run the above commands to set the readable/writable media types, you got to supply the entire list of media types. The existing list of media types would be overwritten. Whichever media types that is not on the list is NOT readable/writable by that tape drive.
Similarly, for the LTO5 tape drive, issue the following commands
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto5tapedrive -WritableMediaType LTO5, LTO4 -ReadableMediaType LTO3
Suppose you only want the LTO4 and LTO5 tape drives to read/write only LTO4 and LTO5 tapes respectively. You would issue these commands.
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto4tapedrive -WritableMediaType LTO4
Set-BETapeDriveDevice -in $lto5tapedrive -WritableMediaType LTO5
As before, by implication, the LTO4 tape drive can read LTO4 tapes and LTO5 tape drive can read LTO5 tapes.
In the above commands, if you are using another media type as a substitute for LTO5, e.g. LTO [8], then enclose substitute LTO5 with "LTO [8]". Note the double quotes.
You can check what media types are readable/writable by issuing these commands
$lto4tapedrive | Select-Object Name,@{n="WritableMedia"; e={$_ | Get-BEMediatype -writablemedia}},@{n="ReadbleMedia"; e={$_ | get-bemediatype -readablemedia}}| format-table -wrap -autosize
$lto5tapedrive | Select-Object Name,@{n="WritableMedia"; e={$_ | Get-BEMediatype -writablemedia}},@{n="ReadbleMedia"; e={$_ | get-bemediatype -readablemedia}}| format-table -wrap -autosize
7) Enable barcode rules for your library
If you have more than one robotic library, then you would have to use the Where-Object cmdlet to filter for the correct library. Otherwise, issue this command to enable barcode rules for your robotic library
Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice | Set-BERoboticLibraryDevice -BarcodeRulesEnabled $true
If there is anything wrong, you can turn off the barcode rules by issuing this command.
Get-BERoboticLibraryDevice | Set-BERoboticLibraryDevice -BarcodeRulesEnabled $false
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