Re: [Bacula-users] Rewinding + Restoring + Reusing
2008-09-04 10:37:39
Vladislav Korotkov wrote:
> 1. Do I have to rewind tapes before trying to restore jobs from them or
> bacula DB keeps track of tape position information?
Not that I know of.
> 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?
You could consider the recycling option.
If you want to "erase" the Bacula label:
mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind
mt -f /dev/sa0 weof
This will write an End-of-File marker on the tape. Bacula will treat it
as if it were empty.
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