On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Chris Munns <chrismunns AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> I am trying to get a tape that had been deleted from the catalog back into
> it.   I have tried everything I can possibly think of(including manually
> entering it in the database, but it never seems right), but I can't seem to
> get Bacula to treat the tape as if it were new again(labeling, re-labeling
> doesn't work).  Is there any easy way for me to completely wipe the tape
> itself clean with Bacula or its associated tools?  I want to use the same
> barcode label on it if possible, but if putting a new label on it would
> work, I would just as easily do that instead.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
If you do not care about the data on the tape and just want to label
it for use. Do the following.

unmount a tape using umount in bacula or stop the bacula-sd service to
get bacula to release its lock on the drive.

Then

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 weof

Then start the bacula-sd service if you stopped it,
Then label the tape in bacula. Make sure you remove any of the manual
database labeling if it still exists..

John

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