On Thursday 12 April 2007 18:33, Flak Magnet wrote: > A vendor sent us incorrectly formatted barcode labels for our tapes. > They contain an extra character due to some "checksum" encoded in the > barcode. > > They've since sent replacement labels, but in the meantime one of the > bad labels has entered use as a bacula volume (it was a necessity). > > I could just ignore it, it is, after all, just one label. But I don't > wanna. > > Would the correct course to relabeling the tape be to delete the volume, > apply the corrected barcode label, then bscan it back in? > > Alternatively, is there a Mysql procedure I could do to overwrite > anything referring to "BADLABEL0001E" with "GOODLABEL0001" (for example)? > > Thanks for any insights. >
I don't particularly recommend bscanning it, because it is just going to put the data back in under the old tape name. The name of the tape is on the Volume, and you cannot change that without re-writing the tape. Probably the simplest way to proceed is to migrate all the data off the tape onto one that is correctly labeled (well, this may be a bit of a learning experience if you haven't used migration). If you don't have two drives, then you need to migrate to disk, then disk to tape. Then when you are sure there is nothing left on that tape (there is a query command that will tell you), it should get into a purged state at which point you can recyle it then Bacula will allow you to relabel it. Alternatively, you can delete the volume, reinitialize it with an EOF and then write a new label. You must be on version 2.0.3 for the above to work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
