On Sunday 30 July 2006 00:05, Mark Nienberg wrote: > I recently had a problem that made me want to erase and relabel a bacula tape, > keeping its same name so it would stay in the same spot in the tape rotation scheme. > I recycled and purged the volume in the catalog, then deleted the volume, erased > the tape using the tape drive tools, then used bconsole to label it again with the > old name. > > Is there a way to label a tape that is already in the catalog? It looks to me like > the relabel command is intended to write labels on tapes that already have bacula > labels, which in my case it did not (I erased it). > > I can see this coming up also when I decide a tape is too old and should be replaced. > I'll need to substitute a blank tape and label it with a name that already exists.
If you are going to the same volume name to a different tape, you need to first delete the Volume from the catalog. Otherwise you will have no end of problems. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
