Set the tape status to recycle and re-write over it from the beginning.

On 02/14/2016 11:26 AM, philhu wrote:
> I have an lt04 tape system. All jobs write to the tapes in one pool. A 
> specific tapw was in the drive, half full or so from oler backup jobs
>
> During a tape job today, we had a power fail due to flickering power. Nothing 
> went off completely,  but tape stopped writing and bacula timed out and 
> marked job cancelled and marked tape status 'error'
>
> So I reset all, system runs fine on other tapes. So I mark tape in error back 
> to append
>
> Trying to use it, bacula seeks to end of old data, hits eot and dies with i/o 
> error
>
> Is there and way to start using the tape again?  The command 'list volumes' 
> shows how much tape is actually used. I think i need to write eofs at the end 
> of the old data. How do i seek to end of old data and weof at end. Or should 
> i just mark tape full to save the old savesets on it?
>
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