Stan Horwitz wrote:

> If you really want to make a tape appear as if its never been used, you need
> to remove it from the media database, then load it into a tape drive and
> overwrite the tape label using an OS command such as tar or cp on Unix or
> whatever similar sort of command is available on Windows. 

...such as the erase command supplied with NetWorker?

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