Aren't the AutoPrune and VolumeRentention fields written to the volume when
it is labelled?  I seem to remember something in the manual about having to
update your volumes if you change certain attributes regarding
Pruning/Recycling/Retention.

Thanks,
Chris  

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> Of Russell Howe
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> To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] "status director" and pruning
> 
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 August 2005 14:18, Russell Howe wrote:
> > 
> >>Should it be possible (via 'AutoPrune = no' options in all the right
> >>places, together with 'Prune {Job,Volume,File}s = no') to 
> stop "status
> >>director" from doing a prune operation when it lists which tapes it
> >>thinks it will need for upcoming jobs?
> > 
> > In principle, yes.  If you can find a case where it goes 
> off and prune (quite 
> > possible since it is not a job as such), then I'll be happy 
> to fix it.
> 
> It seems to prune every time for me. I'll take a look at the database
> and check what the code's doing... IIRC it was a fairly 
> simple sequence
> of steps that ran when "status director" was issued. I started looking
> before, but got sidetracked...
> 
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> Russell Howe
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