reusing tapes

[Frank Cherry]

Hello there,

I have done a lot of test with writing to LTO tape. Now I want to set the tapes back to a clean state, like new. I have found this in the web:

Insert the tape into drive.

   

mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind

mt -f ${DRIVE} weof

mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind

Now the tape should be ready for usage, the SD will label it automatically when requested. This is then needed when starting with a new catalog when I'm cleared about my future backup strategies. There will also flow in all the valuable pointers from all the people here, helping me to understand this great powerfulg software. Thanks a lot. Great community here.

Do you have any objections?

Thanks and all the best, Frank

[Brock Palen]

Generally yes.
If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable and add them to a Scratch pool.

That way you can watch what’s going on in tape demand. In general yes Bareos will ask for a ’new append-able volume’ which would let you manually label. Which makes sense if you don’t have an autoloader swapping tapes anyway.

There are conditions where if set incorrectly you might force a volume to be recycled you didn’t intend. If you stay close to stock settings your assumption is correct though.


Brock Palen
bro...@mlds-networks.com
www.mlds-networks.com
Websites, Linux, Hosting, Joomla, Consulting

> --
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users...@googlegroups.com.
> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/9ad0a549-ff49-418a-8b55-98fd71a59c10n%40googlegroups.com.

[Frank Kirschner]

Thanks for replying, At the moment I don't have an autoloader only a
single LTO 7 drive.

All the best, Frank