On Sat, 02 Dec 2006, Arno Lehmann might have said:

> Hello,
> 
> On 12/1/2006 2:15 PM, Mike wrote:
> > I have a tape that was over written last night with a tar. I
> > don't want to 'relabel' and have a different volume id. I have
> > already purged the volume (it was next in sequence). I want to
> > write the same label back to the tape. Is there a way to do
> > this?
> 
> Yes. Use btape and the label command to write the same label as before 
> to the tape.
> 
> For btape to work, you have to have the drive umounted from Bacula, so 
> you have a sequence like 'bconsole ...' 'umount tapedrive; quit' and 
> 'btape -c ... tapedrive' 'label' 'whatever-your-tapelabel-was' 'quit'
> 
> I've done that too often by now ;-)

Thanks.

Mike

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