On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Martin Simmons<martin AT lispworks DOT com> 
wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:37:00 -0400, Phil Stracchino said:
>>
>> Problem:
>>
>> You have a running job which turns out to need one volume more than you
>> anticipated.  You don't have another labelled tape ready.  You DO have
>> some available tapes waiting to be relabelled, but they're volumes with
>> a different label scheme from an earlier installation.
>>
>> You can't use the label command because the tapes are already labelled.
>>  You can't use btape to label them because the sd has your tape drive
>> locked, and you can't release the tape drive without stopping the sd,
>> which will interrupt the job.
>
> Did you try the bconsole umount command?  That releases the drive for me
> without stopping th sd.
>

This should be enough to allow external utilities to have access to
the tape drive. After you are done with the label however you will
have to use the mount command to tell bacula to use the volume again.

John

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