OK, not "recycled" but "reused after recycling"; sorry, I didn't express 
myself correctly.
And, of course, it should be optional; I meant mostly *-to-disk scenarios.

Any idea how this can be managed "by bconsole scripting" as someone had 
suggested?

Alex

Alan Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>
>   
>>> Can a (disk) volume be automatically relabelled when it is recycled?
>>>
>>>       
>> I don't think that's supported atm..
>>
>> I'd like to have that feature too. It shouldn't be too hard to implement..
>>     
>
> A recycled volume is still only a candidate for being written on. Volumes
> are labelled when they're moved from recycle to append.
>
> The decision to not relabel tapes until the last possible moment is
> deliberate.
>
> This gives a last-possible-moment for recovering data off a tape which
> have been wiped from the database, using the various bacula command line
> utilities.
>
> It also reduces excessive tape handling. Bear in mind that media like LTO
> has a chip onboard and counts each load/unload cycle towards the end of
> the tape's lifetime (162 cycles(*)) even if only the very beginning of the
> tape has been read/written.
>
> (Yes, this means the "lifetime warranty" on LTO media has different
> real-world durations depending on the purposes the tapes are put to.
> Other media has similar limitations)
>
>
>
>
>
>   


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