mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind
mt -f /dev/sa0 weof
Do it only to tapes you are sure are not known to Bacula and have no valid
data. This *is* documented in the manual, but given its size, it is not
always easy to find.
On Thursday 10 November 2005 14:52, Adam Newhard wrote:
> About a month ago we suffered a crash of one of our test servers where
> we were using Bacula to backup a few machines before we implemented the
> backup method company-wide. Unfortunately, the hard drive broke, yada
> yada yada. What it comes down to is the following: I've installed
> Bacula 1.38 (the version on the hard drive that foobared was 1.36) and
> have had no problems with any tapes that do not contain a Bacula volume
> or label. In other words, brand new, completely empty tapes work fine.
> Ones that were previously used and have Bacula volumes on them cause the
> director to complain about no appendable volume (obviously). I've run
> the btape test command and restore and know nothing is actually wrong
> with the tape drive.
>
> I'd like to completely clear the tapes that had old Bacula volumes on
> them to load them back in to Bacula as though they were never there or
> at least have a working solution to get the tapes back in to Bacula.
> However, I haven't found any information on this in the documentation or
> the mailing list archives. I'm interested in knowing how to clear the
> tapes or get them back into the system so they can be reused. If
> there's a better solution than the ones I've listed (or if I've
> completely missed something), please, let me know or point me in the
> right direction.
>
> Below is what I've tried so far and the system configuration in case it
> helps any.
>
> FreeBSD ****.microstrain.com 5.4-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8 #3:
> Thu Nov 3 07:46:13 EST 2005
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIGER i386
> Bacula 1.38
> Tape Drive: HP SureStore DAT40
>
> Things I've tried:
> 1. I mounted the drive and tried to delete the Volume, but obviously
> it's not in the catalog so that's no help.
> 2. I've run bscan to try to put the Volume back into the catalog with
> the following input and output.
> $ /usr/local/bacula/sbin/bscan -V 11_10_05 -v -s -m -c
> /usr/local/bacula/etc/bacula-sd.conf /dev/nsa0
> bscan: butil.c:263 Using device: "/dev/nsa0" for reading.
> 10-Nov 08:50 bscan: Ready to read from volume "11_10_05" on device
> "DDS-4" (/dev/nsa0).
> bscan: bscan.c:281 Using Database: bacula, User: bacula
> bscan: bscan.c:405 Volume is prelabeled. This tape cannot be scanned.
> Records added or updated in the catalog:
> 0 Media
> 0 Pool
> 0 Job
> 0 File
>
> Here's a copy of the tape entry in my bacula-sd.conf file
>
> Device {
> Name = DDS-4
> Description = "DDS-4 for FreeBSD"
> Media Type = DDS-4
> Archive Device = /dev/nsa0
> AutomaticMount = yes; # when device opened, read it
> AlwaysOpen = yes
> Offline On Unmount = no
> Hardware End of Medium = no
> BSF at EOM = yes
> Backward Space Record = no
> Fast Forward Space File = no
> TWO EOF = yes
> }
>
>
>
>
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