[Bacula-users] backups always waiting for appendable volume

[Eric Peterson]

I'm using 1.36.3 on a Debian server. I'm writing all my backups to disk.

I was having problems with backups waiting on volumes because I had a full disk.  I have since converted my old disk to use LVM and have added another drive to volume.  So I now have over 100 GB free. However, this morning I found that my backups are still waiting for an appendable volume.  This is what I get when I do a 'list volumes'. I cut everything but one client and it's incrementals which aren't running because of this problem.

Pool: ASP-Inc-Pool
+---------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName   | VolStatus | VolBytes    | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
+---------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
|       7 | ASP-Inc-0001 |           |           0 |        0 |    1,728,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2006-02-06 08:39:05 |
|      15 | ASP-Inc-0002 |           |           0 |        0 |    1,728,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2006-02-06 08:39:07 |
|      22 | ASP-Inc-0003 |           |           0 |        0 |    1,728,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2006-02-06 08:39:59 |
|      29 | ASP-Inc-0004 | Full      | 890,387,943 |        0 |    1,728,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2006-02-06 08:39:02 |
|      56 | ASP-Inc-0005 |           |           0 |        0 |    1,728,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2006-02-01 23:15:30 |
+---------+--------------+-----------+-------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+

This is my conf for this backup pool:

Pool {
  Name = ASP-Inc-Pool
  Pool Type = Backup
  Recycle = yes           # automatically recycle Volumes
  AutoPrune = yes         # Prune expired volumes
  Volume Retention = 20 days
  Accept Any Volume = yes
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 6
  Label Format = "ASP-Inc-"
  Maximum Volumes = 5
}

Everything was running fine for a long time and now I'm in a situation where I'm not sure what to do.  I tried recycling volume 7 using this command from the manual (replaced volume with 7):
purge jobs volume

That didn't seem to work so I assume I used it incorrectly.

I really need to get his fixed so if someone can help me understand what it is I need to do to fix this problem I would really appreciate it.