On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 9:07 AM, tqz <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> 
wrote:
>
> Hi John
>
> Thanks for the response. st stor im assuming gives the same output as stauts 
> storgae? Is there a way to simply just get the name of the tape - as I would 
> like to write a script that will purge the current tape in the tape drive so 
> that bacula uses this tape to do the nightly backup.
>

Try something like this.

echo "st storage=DEV6-Changer" | bconsole | grep Volume:


where you replace DEV6-Changer with your storage device name.

John

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