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bcopy: Could not reserve volume "<VOLNAME>" for append, because it will be read.

Summary

Reproducibility Platform OS OS Version Product Version
always AMD64 Debian Buster 9.4.2-2+deb10u1

Description

I'm trying to copy a tape volume to a disk volume, using bcopy; the final target is to make a copy of the tape, so tape -> file, then file -> tape.

Anyway, whatever i run bcopy i get the error in title; i've done some research, found some (very old!) similar bugs but nothing useful.

All my findings is on public bacula-users list, on thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/bacula-users/thread/p4gp7l-gf12.ln1%40leia.lilliput.linux.it/#msg59128760

Thanks.