On 7/19/2010 10:06 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> Hi Dan
>
> Thanks for your email.
>
> On 19/07/10, Dan Langille (dan AT langille DOT org) wrote:
>> On 7/19/2010 4:21 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
>> Oh.... your tapes should still be usable after the upgrade.  I think
>> you need to concentrate on that problem first. Ignore all others.
>>
>>> Is the best thing to do to:
>>
>> Your objective is missing from this post.  What are you trying to
>> accomplish?  What is your goal?
>
> My objective, foolishly ommitted from my email, is to start from scratch
> after the upgrade. I have now managed to do so by using the brute force
> method to relabel the tapes as the catalogues from my tests failed to
> follow from 2.4.4 to 5.0.2.

Well, there's not reason for the catalogs not to come along. If you want 
to solve that problem first, we can.

> (For reference, I note how I did that here:
>
> 1. Stop the bacula SD daemons
>      (note that only bacula-sd needs to be stopped)
>
> 2. Use the "brute force" approach to "clear" the tape
>
>      mtx -f /dev/sg4 load<tape_no>
>      mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
>      mt -f /dev/nst0 weof
>      mtx -f /dev/sg4 unload<tape_no>
>
> 3. label
>
>      bconsole
>      label
>      ... follow instructions ...
> )

Sounds right.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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