hello, I had an interesting development today. I labeled a dlt IV tape
( standalone tape drive) for a new backup using bconsole. It took
sometime to return, so I went out and started looking at logs. It
completed successfully. The message log did not have anything in it but
when I did a
Awesome, the tape was empty so that worked great.
jason
Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Is the data dispensable? If so, mt rewind and mt weof.
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> If not, btape (I believe) is willing to forceably label a tape that
> already has a table. I'd expect yo
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Is the data dispensable? If so, mt rewind and mt weof.
If not, btape (I believe) is willing to forceably label a tape that
already has a table. I'd expect you fall more into the first camp though
(unless you managed to relabel a tape by accident that
I accidentally labeled one of my tapes an incorrect name and then
removed the entries from my MySQL database. Now when I try to relabel
the tape bconsole will not let me...it says it's already been labeled.
When I try to "relabel" the tape it wants to take an entry from the
database which isn't