Re: [Bacula-users] reuse tape from test?

[Ilya <ma...@kr...>]

i tried both, they refuse to work as soon as label is detected.
as Dan pointed out weof works, as well as dd'ing small file to tape.
i dont mind, but it just seems this would be a good option to have.
i used a lot of tapes for dump's so i now have to erase almost all of them.


On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 09:55:26PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:26:07PM -0500, Ilya wrote:
> > ive done bunch of tests and i have one tape labeled, which i want to relable and
> > reuse for different pool. all the jobs and catalogs which had this job were
> > deleted. Whenever i try to relable it i get an error saying it already has
> > label. 
> > is there a nice method  to reuse tape in such situation or the easiest way is to
> > dd first block?
> 
> Silly question:  Are you trying to relabel it using the "label" command
> or the "relabel" command?
> 
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