Generally yes. If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable and add them to a Scratch pool.
That way you can watch what’s going on in tape demand. In general yes Bareos will ask for a ’new append-able volume’ which would let you manually label. Which makes sense if you don’t have an autoloader swapping tapes anyway. There are conditions where if set incorrectly you might force a volume to be recycled you didn’t intend. If you stay close to stock settings your assumption is correct though. Brock Palen [email protected] www.mlds-networks.com Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting > On Dec 26, 2020, at 7:08 AM, 'Frank Cherry' via bareos-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello there, > > I have done a lot of test with writing to LTO tape. Now I want to set the > tapes back to a clean state, like new. I have found this in the web: > > Insert the tape into drive. > > mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind > mt -f ${DRIVE} weof > mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind > > Now the tape should be ready for usage, the SD will label it automatically > when requested. This is then needed when starting with a new catalog when I'm > cleared about my future backup strategies. There will also flow in all the > valuable pointers from all the people here, helping me to understand this > great powerfulg software. Thanks a lot. Great community here. > > Do you have any objections? > Thanks and all the best, Frank > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bareos-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/9ad0a549-ff49-418a-8b55-98fd71a59c10n%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/D6C4D67B-C7AF-4C97-9BB7-D9F23BD08211%40mlds-networks.com.
