> 1. Do I have to rewind tapes before trying to restore jobs from them or 
> bacula DB keeps track of tape position information?
No.

> 2. When I have restored jobs from a particular tape, what do I have to do (I 
> want to do it manually) to make the tape reusable again as if it is empty?
>

Recycle. Usually you will have bacula recycle based on a time period expiring:

http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html

But in your case you will probably want to force the recycle using the
bacula purge command.

John

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