2010/7/23 Simone Martina <smartina AT noc.skylogicnet DOT com>:
> On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote:
>
> I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume
> expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position
> to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data?
>
> When I've to force recycling a tape, for first I delete it from the db
> (delete volume=yadayada...), then I umount the tape and out of bconsole I
> do: # mt -f /dev/nst0 weof
> Once the tape was erased, I re-login into bconsole and relabel the tape with
> the oldname (yadayada...).
>
> Not very elegant, but functional.
>

purge volume

should be sufficient.

John

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