On Wednesday 13 July 2005 13:25, Alan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Paul Waldo wrote:
> > Hi Arno,
> >
> > No the tape was not labeled--it was blank as can be.
>
> I am seeing this behaviour with truely blank LTOs too.
>
> Try writing 2 EOFs to the start of the tapes and try it again.
>
> > Nor was that volume
> > label in the catalog.  I was under the impression from the docs that
> > automatic labeling would allow me to just feed blank tapes into the
> > drives and bacula would properly detect, label, and use the tapes
> > whenever it needed to write data.  Do I need to pre-label all of the
> > blank tapes I have? Thanks.
>
> No, but bacula needs to detect the tapes are blank, rather than
> empty/erased.

Huh.  What is the difference?

>
> This is an area which clearly needs some work... :-)

Please be a bit more specific.

>
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