Hello dear Proxmox dev team!
I stumbled across the online LTO barcode generator a couple weeks ago, and I must say it is a fantastic tool! IMHO, you should really make it more visible (e.g. direct link on the PBS page) because I am sure a lot of people don't know it exists. The same applies to the Backup Pruning Simulator, it is incredibly useful to fine-tune retention policies!
I also wanted to let you know that I found a limitation on the barcode generator: it currently requires a leading uppercase letter [A-Z] as a prefix, but the LTO standard dictates that this could also be a number. In fact, the first 6 chars may be anything [A-Z;0-9], so basically a prefix is not required at all. I agree that most people creating new media sets would probably start the labels with at least one letter to identify media sets faster, but when you already have dozens or hundreds of factory-labeled cartridges that don't have any prefix, you're blocked... Maybe you could remove this design limitation?
I'll put the links below for those who come across this post and don't know these tools yet...
LTO Barcode Generator:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/lto-barcode/index.html
Backup Pruning Simulator:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/
Cheers,
Denis
I stumbled across the online LTO barcode generator a couple weeks ago, and I must say it is a fantastic tool! IMHO, you should really make it more visible (e.g. direct link on the PBS page) because I am sure a lot of people don't know it exists. The same applies to the Backup Pruning Simulator, it is incredibly useful to fine-tune retention policies!
I also wanted to let you know that I found a limitation on the barcode generator: it currently requires a leading uppercase letter [A-Z] as a prefix, but the LTO standard dictates that this could also be a number. In fact, the first 6 chars may be anything [A-Z;0-9], so basically a prefix is not required at all. I agree that most people creating new media sets would probably start the labels with at least one letter to identify media sets faster, but when you already have dozens or hundreds of factory-labeled cartridges that don't have any prefix, you're blocked... Maybe you could remove this design limitation?
I'll put the links below for those who come across this post and don't know these tools yet...
LTO Barcode Generator:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/lto-barcode/index.html
Backup Pruning Simulator:
https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/prune-simulator/
Cheers,
Denis