2010/7/23 Simone Martina <smart...@noc.skylogicnet.com>: > On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: > > I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume > expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position > to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? > > When I've to force recycling a tape, for first I delete it from the db > (delete volume=yadayada...), then I umount the tape and out of bconsole I > do: # mt -f /dev/nst0 weof > Once the tape was erased, I re-login into bconsole and relabel the tape with > the oldname (yadayada...). > > Not very elegant, but functional. >
purge volume should be sufficient. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
