Re: [bareos-users] reusing tapes

2020-12-26 Thread 'Frank Kirschner' via bareos-users
Thanks for replying, At the moment I don't have an autoloader only a single LTO 7 drive. All the best, Frank Am 26.12.2020 um 16:00 schrieb Brock Palen: > Generally yes. > If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable > and add them to a Scratch pool. > > That way

Re: [bareos-users] reusing tapes

2020-12-26 Thread Brock Palen
Generally yes. If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable and add them to a Scratch pool. That way you can watch what’s going on in tape demand. In general yes Bareos will ask for a ’new append-able volume’ which would let you manually label. Which makes se

[bareos-users] reusing tapes

2020-12-26 Thread 'Frank Cherry' via bareos-users
Hello there, I have done a lot of test with writing to LTO tape. Now I want to set the tapes back to a clean state, like new. I have found this in the web: Insert the tape into drive. mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind mt -f ${DRIVE} weof mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind Now the tape should be ready for usage, t