Re: [Bacula-users] Do your VXA tapes lose their label?

Brian Debelius wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Over the couple of years that I have been using two VXA-172 drives, I 
> have noticed that my VXA tapes occasionally lose their label.  Once this 
> week, on each of two different backup systems, I have had to intervene 
> because bacula said to put in a specific tape

NOTE: said tape is a suggestion only.

Bacula will accept another tape, provided it can be appended to or 
overwritten.

 > or label a new one.  The
> tape bacula wants is already loaded into the drive.  If I then read the 
> label with btape, btape says there is no label.  So I then label the 
> tape again and go on my merry way.
> 
> If this is the case, I think I will have to come up with a way to read 
> the label during a load, and if its not there, then see if the tape 
> exists in the catalog, and if it does exist, then relabel it.



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Dan Langille

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