Organizing tapes in tape library the correct way

[Zervendoggo]

Good day all,
Recently I had the chance to get a hold of an IBM TS3200 tape library equipped with two LTO-5 drives.
Following the documentation, I was able to configure correctly the changer and all the drives, however, I'm struggling in the process of labeling my tapes.

At the moment this library only holds 15 Tapes, I'm able to label them. Labeling requires the Tapes to be formatted, but so far I haven't found a way to "bulk format" them, and doing this for 40+ tapes in the future might get very tedious.
Am I missing something? Is there a simple way to automate this process that I'm missing?

Thank you in advance

 

[dcsapak]

no there's currently no built-in way to bulk formatting tapes, but you could script it:

use 'proxmox-tape changer status' to get a list of filled slots with their label

and use 'proxmox-tape load-media' or 'proxmox-tape load-media-from-slot' to load the tape into a drive

and then use 'proxmox-tape format' to format it