Am 22.11.2018 um 20:36 schrieb Lloyd Goodman: > I have a set of old LTO-5 tapes that have previously been used in bacula > but now all the data has expired and I would like to use them for a > different purpose in a different pool. > > Now ideally I would like to continue using the existing bar code labels > on the tapes. Is that possible? > > The only instructions I have been able to find are where I use mtx to > overwrite the eof and then label them again, which given the name of the > command, I assume means I will need to add a new bar code label. > > Should I be looking at using purge instead?
Normally none of that should be necessary. Just assign them to the new pool with the "update volume" command. If the data on the tapes is expired then a prune should be enough to set the tapes' status to "purged". Even that is done automatically when Bacula looks for usable tapes. The mtx overwrite procedure is only needed when you want to relabel tapes that have a Bacula label but are not listed in your catalog, for example because they come from another Bacula system. HTH Tilman _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
