On 12 Mar 2006 at 14:05, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I've got some new dlt tapes that were given to me. Before i put them in > to production i'd like to fully clear them and ensure they're good to work > with bacula. I'm getting an error that the tape in question is not in the > catalog, which is correct it isn't, it's new to bacula, yet it already has a > label on it from it's previous place of work. > Thanks.
This sounds like the tapes already have a Bacula label on them. If you want nothing off those tapes, do this: mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind mt -f /dev/sa0 weof Given /dev/sa0 is your tape drive. This will rewind the tape and write an End Of File to the drive. Then Bacula will not see the label, and allow you to write a new Bacula label. If you want to test the tapes, all i do is use tar, and then compare what I backup with what I get back. Full details here, but the error checking etc will probably only work with FreeBSD: http://www.freebsddiary.org/tape-testing.php -- Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
