> > Good eye Matt, but that was a just a typo in the email. I did wonder if it was :-)
> > After doing some math I noticed that the volume retention period was one > year for all of my tapes, even though it was set to four weeks in the pool > resource. I purged a tape and relabeled it and sure enough the retention > period was one year. I then changed the pool resource so volume retention > would be one month. After purging a relabeling a tape the retention period > is set for 1 month. I then set it back to four weeks in the pool resource, > and with a relabel the retention period was correctly set. I have no idea > why this happened, and I can't seem to reproduce it. Could it be that the volume retention was originally defined in the pool resource to be 1 year when you originally labeled the tape? This information is stored for each tape when it is labelled, so changes to the resource afterwards are not updated for already existing tapes. You need to use the update command for this. Not sure why this is, probably by design. > > My question now is about recycling volumes. I noticed when using "Recycle > Oldest Volume", bacula did just that, even if the tape was not in the > library. It would be ideal if bacula would recycle the oldest available > volume, will this happen under normal recycle conditions? By library, I assume you mean pool, yes? I've never used this option, but under normal conditions it should only recycle the oldest volume from the pool if the storage daemon requests another volume and there is not one already available. This option respects retention periods so should not be recycling volumes that have not passed their retention periods. How are you observing this behaviour? It should only do anything when a job is running and requires a new tape. Matt -- Matthew Buckland, Network / Support Analyst Wordbank Limited 33 Charlotte Street, London W1T 1RR Direct line: +44 (0) 20 7903 8847 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7903 8888 <http://www.wordbank.com/> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
