Bacula Relabel Tape

Some notes on what I did to erase a tape in Bacula.

unmount using bconsole

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The defined Storage resources are:
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     1: File
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     2: Scalar
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Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
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3307 Issuing autochanger "unload slot 2, drive 0" command.
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3001 Device ""Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)" unmounted.

I used the library web front-end to move the tape into this drive then erased the label using operating system command mt:

Manually label tape using bconsole. You probably want to use barcode labeling though. Look further down in this post.

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The defined Storage resources are:
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     1: File
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     2: Scalar
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Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
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Enter new Volume name: FullTest0002
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Enter slot (0 or Enter for none):
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Defined Pools:
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     1: Default
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     2: File
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     3: Scratch
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     4: FullTest
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     5: AllIncrementals
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     6: AllDifferentials
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     7: DiffTest
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     8: IncrTest
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Select the Pool (1-8): 4
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Connecting to Storage daemon Scalar at bcla001:9103 ...
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Sending label command for Volume "FullTest0002" Slot 0 ...
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No slot defined in catalog (slot=0) for Volume "" on "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0).
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Cartridge change or "update slots" may be required.
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3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
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3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result is Slot 2.
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3000 OK label. VolBytes=64512 DVD=0 Volume="FullTest0002" Device="Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
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Requesting to mount Drive-1 ...
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3001 Device ""Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)" is mounted with Volume "FullTest0002"

check status using bconsole:

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Connecting to Storage daemon Scalar at bcla001:9103
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bcla001-sd Version: 5.2.6 (21 February 2012) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian wheezy/sid
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Daemon started 07-Sep-12 17:37. Jobs: run=2, running=0.
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 Heap: heap=589,824 smbytes=296,475 max_bytes=460,222 bufs=128 max_bufs=142
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 Sizes: boffset_t=8 size_t=8 int32_t=4 int64_t=8 mode=0,0
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Running Jobs:
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Writing: Full Backup job Test JobId=6 Volume="FullTest0002"
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    pool="FullTest" device="Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
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    spooling=0 despooling=0 despool_wait=0
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    Files=1,047,529 Bytes=1,862,098,892,915 Bytes/sec=36,129,899
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    FDReadSeqNo=36,562,344 in_msg=33718333 out_msg=5 fd=4
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...snip
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Device status:
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Autochanger "Autochanger" with devices:
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   "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
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Device "FileStorage" is not open or does not exist.
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Device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0) is mounted with:
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    Volume:      FullTest0002
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    Pool:        FullTest
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    Media type:  Ultrium5-SCSI
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    Slot 2 is loaded in drive 0.
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    Total Bytes=758,596,608 Blocks=11,758 Bytes/block=64,517
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    Positioned at File=0 Block=11,759
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====
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Used Volume status:
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FullTest0002 on device "Drive-1" (/dev/nst0)
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    Reader=0 writers=1 devres=0 volinuse=1
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====
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Label using the barcode on the tape.

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The defined Storage resources are:
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     1: File
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     2: Scalar
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Select Storage resource (1-2): 2
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Connecting to Storage daemon Scalar at bcla001:9103 ...
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3306 Issuing autochanger "slots" command.
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Device "Drive-1" has 30 slots.
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Connecting to Storage daemon Scalar at bcla001:9103 ...
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3306 Issuing autochanger "list" command.
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The following Volumes will be labeled:
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Slot  Volume
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  11  VOL021
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Do you want to label these Volumes? (yes|no): yes
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Defined Pools:
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     1: Default
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     2: File
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     3: Scratch
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     4: FullTest
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     5: AllIncrementals
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     6: AllDifferentials
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     7: DiffTest
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     8: IncrTest
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Select the Pool (1-8): 1
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Connecting to Storage daemon Scalar at bcla001:9103 ...
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Sending label command for Volume "VOL021" Slot 11 ...
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3301 Issuing autochanger "loaded? drive 0" command.
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3302 Autochanger "loaded? drive 0", result: nothing loaded.
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3304 Issuing autochanger "load slot 11, drive 0" command.