Item: Add a "remove label" (or "initialize tape") command to bacula.
Origin: Georg Weiss - <georg DOT weiss AT avira DOT com>
Date: 27 April 2007
Status: NEW
What: Please consider adding a "remove label" command to bacula. This
should enable the reuse of "bacula" tapes which are not in the
database for some reason.
Why:
OK this is somehow a special case but IMHO still valid.
There is currently no possibility to remove a existing "bacula"
label on a tape from the bconsole. This forces you to use "mt -f
<device> rewind; mt -f <device> weof" from the console. This is
fine for some conditions (but undocumented and not integrated
into bacula).
I recently got into the problem that i had a job requesting a
new tape which i could not "relabel" because the tape device was
blocked by the storage daemon. Stopping the storage daemon
results in job termination.
It would be much more userfriendly to have the possiblity to
remove the old label from bconsole without having to
stop/start the storage daemon.
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