Dear Bill,
In message <3a4154cc-8c44-6d18-17b5-c5a91450e...@protonmail.com> you wrote:
> >
> > I would like to reuse a specific volume before it's expiration date.
> > What I do so far is that I purge the volume, then use btape to
> > rewrite the label and this remove the data.
...
> Simply by purging the volume, all Job and File records related to
> it are pruned from the catalog database with no concern for
> retention periods, and the volume will become eligible for Bacula
> to re-use it. There is no need to do all the extra steps you have
> done.
This was my expectation, too, but apparently this is not the case.
As long as the tape has not expired, it will not be reused by
Bacula. When I change the status from "purged" to "append", Bacula
will happyly use the tape - and append to the end of the existing
data.
> Matter of fact, in normal situations, once Bacula labels a volume,
> there is never a time when you need to manually erase and relable
> it.
Probably meddling with the expiration period is not considered to be
a normal situation ;-)
> If Bacula is not using this volume straight away, it may just be
> that other volumes are available in your environment.
No. The situation came up when a backup job was hanging waiting for
appendable data, and I didn'd have physical access to swap tapes.
So I decided to overwrite the oldest volume in the library - but
simply purging it did *not* work.
> Can you tell us more about this volume, the pool it is in, other
> eligible volumes, and the Job?
There was nothing special about this volume or job; all tapes in
this library were the same media, same pool, and all other paramters
same, too.
Note that I am talking about volumes on tape here! I can see that
this works fine for disk volumes used for backing up the catalog.
The only difference between these that I can see is that the disk
volumes have recycle=1 set, while the tape volumes have recycle=0 .
Does this make the difference?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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