Bacula

Hard recyle a Tape

in bconsole type:

delete

and answer the questions to delte the tape (volume) in question. Then type

release

to make bacula let go your tape drive. Use the low-level commands

/opt/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg5 load 4 /dev/nst0 0
/opt/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/sg5 listall
mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
mt -f /dev/nst0 weof

Afterwords, you can label the tape again, e.g. using the barcode with the following command in bconsole:

mount
label slot=4 storage=Tandberg_Storageloader_LTO-3 pool=FullPool barcode