Kshatriya wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> 
>> Does "llist media" help? (note the double "l", as "long list")
>>
>> There you can see when the tape was labeled, and first time written into.
> 
> It would be great and it would be what I want, but unfortunatly LabelDate 
> equals FirstWritten. For example a tape that is in use for a long time 
> already:
> 
>        FirstWritten: 2008-10-23 20:00:01
>         LastWritten: 2008-10-23 23:29:01
>           LabelDate: 2008-10-23 20:00:01
> 
> So maybe this is a bug in Bacula?
> 
> I'm using version 2.4.2
> 
> K.

Bug : no I don't think so ...

Blanking a tape is blanking ( everything erased ) as this reset all informations
All other backup software I know work exactly the same BrightStor Acserve, 
Veritas, ntbackup etc ...

I don't know if it works like you want but you can try to relabel your media

         MediaId: 163
       VolumeName: testrelabeled
             Slot: 0
           PoolId: 1
        MediaType: File_FSSQL
     FirstWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
      LastWritten: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
        LabelDate: 2008-10-26 14:29:45

But as the operation is same as deleted old and create a new media I don't 
really thing this would change anything.

In Arcserve if you purge / blank tape all data are also lost.
In you purge them and recycle them you can keep informations.

Perharps with codebar you can track more informations ....


-- 

     Bruno Friedmann


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