Thanks for replying, At the moment I don't have an autoloader only a single LTO 7 drive.
All the best, Frank Am 26.12.2020 um 16:00 schrieb Brock Palen: > 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/563b9c4a-724c-0734-48e9-f642f3af3c61%40celebrate.de.
