Secure backup labeling tape with volume id

I am new to OSB. I am trying to manually label a tape with a volume id using obtool.
Tried this:
labelvol drive raid_0n obtaropt -Xfam:SEE obtaropt -e:SEE-000005 5  force
I get error: Error: Volume ID is disallowed when labeling/reusing (tag is permitted)
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Joe

I have another question.
I have scheduled incremental back-ups once a day.
The data is never appended to previous day's tape.
A new tape is labeled every morning and written to.
I have set the write window time to 1 week in the 'Default and Policies' area.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Joe

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    If so, I will be able to remove all my disk backups, reconfigure it as needed, and re-enable the short term backups without losing any of my historical backups. (For Legal reasons)
    Thanks!
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    on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question.

    Hi,
    No, Long term to tape are also "point in time" backups and if started now will only contain new recovery points. The ability to make backups of previous recovery points is not very easy, you basically need to restore a disk based RP to tape, unfortunately,
    every restored recovery point to tape requires a separate tape.
    Please remember to click “Mark as Answer” on the post that helps you, and to click “Unmark as Answer” if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Regards, Mike J. [MSFT]
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