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John Drescher wrote:
> 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..

Wouldn't the 'add' command work just fine?

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