On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Nils Blanck-Wehde
<nils.blanck-wehde AT backofficeservice DOT biz> wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I made some major changes to my backup jobs and now I want to erase and
> recycle all my tapes.
> Which steps are necessary to make the tapes usable again? All tapes are
> still within their retention period so pruning doesn't do anything.
> I can't just drop all bacula tables like the FAQ suggests because I do want
> to keep track of all backups stored in harddisk-volumes.
> Do I have to erase all tape-volumes, rewind them, write two EOF and label
> them again or is there a smarter way to do it? All tapes have barcodes so I
> don't know whether relabelling them with their old name again would confuse
> bacula...
> I don't need any data on those tapes so basically I just want to wipe them.
>
You probably want to use the purge command. And if you have a lot of
tapes you may want to run this in a script.

John

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