On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> You are right tapes are already labeled before. But I deleted old
>> database and created the new one. Also I tried 'label barcodes' command
>> again yesterday but nothing happend because it says it is already
>> labeled for all.  And you said that before put a 'wait' option in your
>> mtx-changer script but i could not find any option for it.
>>
>
> The problem here is bacula will not use these tapes without the labels
> being in the database. For now forget about the wait option I talked
> about. I believe you need to erase the label from each tape.
>
> To do this you need to stop bacula-sd
>
> then load a tape
>
> and execute the following commands
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
> mt -f /dev/st0 weof
>
> Then unload the tape. At this point I would restart bacula-sd and try
> label barcodes again.
>
> If this worked I would write a script that gets mtx to load tapes and
> erase them so I would not have to manually label dozens of volumes.
>

There is such a script here:

https://typo3.digipen.edu/index.php?id=1240

but you will have to change /dev/pass to whatever your autochanger device is

and /dev/nsa0 to /dev/st0

John

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