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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section III. Configuring storage
  4. Configuring tape media
  5. Configuring media settings
  6. Media settings options
  7. Use barcode rules (new media setting)
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Use barcode rules (new media setting)

Specifies whether or not to use barcode rules to assign attributes for new media.

To enable barcode rule support for API robots, add an API_BARCODE_RULES entry to the vm.conf file.

See Configuring barcode rules.

For more information about the vm.conf file, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume II.

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