[Bacula-users] How to reuse tapes?

[Jason Baker]

I finally got Bacula 1.38 working on my shiny new Fedora Core 4 box yesterday, thanks to all who helped answer questions. I ran a full backup lastnight and actually ran out of tape space, so now I would like to reuse those tape and run another full. Here is my situation: Bacula 1.38 on FC4 box using Postgres 8.1 HP Surestor 40x6 with 6 DDS-4 tapes. I run a format script which is basically some MT and MTX commands: /etc/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/sg0 load 1 /dev/nst0 0 mt -f /dev/st0 rewind mt -f /dev/st0 weof I do this for all 6 tapes. This is of course when Bacula isn't running. Then I start Bacula and use the label command to label the tapes BACKUP01, BACKUP02...etc. Now I would like to reuse these tapes to perform another full backup, using the same label, but I don't want to have to go through the trouble of "reformatting" them every time I want to use them. Is there a way to do this? I have "Read the Fine Manual" and I'm not sure it is giving me the information I want. Thank you. Jason