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Hello Olivier, If I understand you right, what you are looking for is what the "relabel" command does. Please see the docs, chapter "5.9 When The Tape Fills" ( http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#x1-700005.9) " Do a list volumes in the Console and select the oldest Volume for relabeling. If you have setup your Retention periods correctly, the Volume should have VolStatus Purged. If the VolStatus is not set to Purged, you will need to purge the database of Jobs that are written on that Volume. Do so by using the command purge jobs volume in the Console. If you have multiple Pools, you will be prompted for the Pool then enter the VolumeName (or MediaId) when requested. Then simply use the relabel command to relabel the Volume. " |
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The term "relabel" would be the good one but with the "relabel" command, the volume has to be purged of its job which would be unfortunate since the jobs on the volume are good. Only the label name is wrong. |
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Hello Olivier, we are not planning to implement what you are asking for. As you say yourself, if everything is properly set up, this problem does not arise. I suggest the following to ease/solve your problem: You do not have to wait until the tape fills, you can set it to "used" at any time. It will then not be used for writing anymore. Also, you can migrate the contents from your tape to another pool and free the tape that way. I am not sure if it is possible to only write the label block on a tape and still be able to read the rest of the tape. If you want to put effort into this, I would suggest you can play around with the "btape" code to see if you can get your wished functionality running. I think that btape would be the right place for such a command. Very best regards, Philipp |
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wait for feedback from Olivier. |
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Hi, Sorry for the wait. The problem is your assumption that I want to rename tapes. I agree that for a (physical) tape, my suggestion does not make sense. You right a tape from Alpha to Omega and store it somewhere. I am talking about File volumes on a filesystem which has random access and is just a file with a name, a label written in the headers of the file and a checksum. |
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Hello Olivier, we are not going to invest ressources into this feature. If you want to work an that yourself, patches are of course welcome. Very best regards, Philipp |
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