On 7/19/2010 10:06 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: > Hi Dan > > Thanks for your email. > > On 19/07/10, Dan Langille (d...@langille.org) wrote: >> On 7/19/2010 4:21 AM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: >> Oh.... your tapes should still be usable after the upgrade. I think >> you need to concentrate on that problem first. Ignore all others. >> >>> Is the best thing to do to: >> >> Your objective is missing from this post. What are you trying to >> accomplish? What is your goal? > > My objective, foolishly ommitted from my email, is to start from scratch > after the upgrade. I have now managed to do so by using the brute force > method to relabel the tapes as the catalogues from my tests failed to > follow from 2.4.4 to 5.0.2.
Well, there's not reason for the catalogs not to come along. If you want to solve that problem first, we can. > (For reference, I note how I did that here: > > 1. Stop the bacula SD daemons > (note that only bacula-sd needs to be stopped) > > 2. Use the "brute force" approach to "clear" the tape > > mtx -f /dev/sg4 load<tape_no> > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind > mt -f /dev/nst0 weof > mtx -f /dev/sg4 unload<tape_no> > > 3. label > > bconsole > label > ... follow instructions ... > ) Sounds right. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
