I'm trying to recycle some older tapes and having issues with Bacula:
a) Bacula not wanting to purge the old tape volume from the catalog. Bconsole just sits there for hours after I type 'purge' and subsequently select the volume to be purged. I have to Ctrl-Z to get out of Bacula at that point.
b) Once an older tape is rewound and the label erased, Bacula refuses, still, to write a new label (and it is set to auto-label the tapes) or to use the tape. 'status stor' in bconsole gives a "device BLOCKED waiting for appendable media" and backups will not run.
The sequence of events is that first, A happens, then I do B and the result is, of course, that Bacula refuses to label or use the tape. I suspect this has to do with some purge or recycle setting and the fact that Bacula still sees the tape (data and/or label) and refuses to overwrite it due to that setting. Maybe.
I say maybe because another interesting thing is that before the tape label was erased, a read label command showed that Bacula seemed to think the tape was not a Bacula-labeled volume, even though we know it is - and the volume is (still) in the catalog.
YES, the little plastic tab on the tape is set to 'record', so that's not the issue.
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