I will try this tomorrow at work.
thanks for your time.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 6:26 PM, John Drescher <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Steve Hood <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I'm no afraid of some work.
> >
> From memory there are two approaches to solve this (someone correct me
> if I am wrong Please!).
>
> In both options stop bacula-sd before proceeding and you can start it
> again after this procedure completes.
> The first is to wipe the label on each tape:
>
> Basically use mtx or the autochanger controls to load each tape one by
> one and do the following two commands to erase the label from the
> tape:
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> mt -f /dev/st0 weof
>
> replace /dev/st0 with your tape device if it is different.
>
> There is a discussion of this here:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg16850.html
>
> This method will erase the label so that label barcodes will be able
> to put a new label on each tape.
>
>
> Now the second is to scan the tapes and import them back into the catalog:
>
>
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Volume_Utility_Tools.html#SECTION003970000000000000000
>
> bscan -s -m -c bacula-sd.conf -v -V Vol001\|Vol002\|Vol003 /dev/nst0
>
> And in your case the volumes will be B27715\|B27687\|B27684\|B27679
>
> Dont forget the \ before the |
>
>
> This will read all data that was written to these tapes so it can take
> a long time.
>
> With this option you do not want to label barcodes after it is done.
>
> John
>
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