There was a thread in January of 2012 discussing how to get tapes that are already labeled with a block size that is too small, usually the default 64K, to be relabeled in order to be the new block size set in bacula-sd.conf. One of the recommendations was to erase the tape. Since I had almost 200 LTO-5 tapes already labeled and otherwise empty, the erase time per tape runs approx. 3 hours. No joy here. I've worked it out and found the following bconsole commands to do the job and fairly quickly. Relabel will not permit the use of the same label, so I just relabeled twice, removed the L5 designator the first time and reapplied it the second time. If someone knows of a better approach, I'm all ears. I just thought that I'd share something that does work. I have not tried it with a tape containing data.
mount storage=changer drive=0 slot=170 update volume="076999L5" volstatus="Recycle" relabel storage=changer oldvolume="076999L5" volume="076999" pool="Scratch" drive="0" slot=170 update volume="076999" volstatus="Recycle" relabel storage=changer oldvolume="076999" volume="076999L5" pool="Scratch" drive="0" slot=170 unmount storage=changer drive=0 Patti Clark Information International Associates, Inc. Linux Administrator and subcontractor to: Research and Development Systems Support Oak Ridge National Laboratory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
