Naming and labeling media
This information provides guidelines for naming and labeling your media.
When you initialize each media volume with a name, this helps to ensure that your operators load the correct media for the save operation. Choose media names that help determine what is on the media and in which media set it belongs. The following table shows an example of how you might initialize your media and label them externally if you use a simple save strategy. The INZTAP and the INZOPT commands create a label for each media volume. Each label has a prefix that indicates the day of the week (A for Monday, B for Tuesday, and so on) and the operation.
- You can find more information about the different save strategies in the information about Planning a backup and recovery strategy.
- You might use up to 30 characters to label optical media volumes.
| Volume Name (INZTAP) | External Label |
|---|---|
| B23001 | Tuesday–GO SAVE command, menu option 23–Media 1 |
| B23002 | Tuesday–GO SAVE command, menu option 23–Media 2 |
| B23003 | Tuesday–GO SAVE command, menu option 23–Media 3 |
| E21001 | Friday–GO SAVE command, menu option 21–Media 1 |
| E21002 | Friday–GO SAVE command, menu option 21–Media 2 |
| E21003 | Friday–GO SAVE command, menu option 21–Media 3 |
Your media names and labels for a medium save strategy might look like those in the following table:
| Volume Name | External Label |
|---|---|
| E21001 | Friday–GO SAVE command, menu option 21–Media 1 |
| E21002 | Friday–GO SAVE command, menu option 21–Media 2 |
| AJR001 | Monday–Save journal receivers–Media 1 |
| AJR002 | Monday–Save journal receivers–Media 2 |
| ASC001 | Monday–Save changed objects–Media 1 |
| ASC002 | Monday–Save changed objects–Media 2 |
| BJR001 | Tuesday–Save journal receivers–Media 1 |
| BJR002 | Tuesday–Save journal receivers–Media 2 |
| B23001 | Tuesday–GO SAVE command, menu option 23–Media 1 |
| B23002 | Tuesday–GO SAVE command, menu option 23–Media 2 |
Put an external label on each media. The label should show the name of the media, and the most recent date that you used it for a save operation. Color-coded labels can help you locate and help you store your media: Yellow for Set A, red for Set B, and so on.