>From the manual, I understand that "Purge Oldest Volume" makes bareos just 
takes the oldest volume, prune/purge/recycle it, and uses that one, not 
caring about the retention time. This ensures bareos will always have an 
available volume to use. BUT I understand it will only do so, if there is 
no other usable volumes, and not able to create new volumes.

Right?

So, onto the next question, what is the actual use of " Recycle Oldest 
Volume"? From the manual, it says it takes the oldest volume and 
prune/purge/recycle it, but respecting the retention period. So whats the 
magic?
It is making a volume available after expired retention period??? Isnt that 
what bareos does anyway with settings "recycle=yes,autoprune=yes,volume 
retention=<passed>".
What am I missing?

Look at this link: 
https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/VolumeManagement.html#recycling-algorithm

What is the actual difference between step 5 and step 10 ?
So is there any situation you need this setting?

And last, from what I understand "recycle" refers to actually reuse a 
volume, but is there any difference between pruning and purging? I find the 
terms are mixed up everywhere in the manual.

Thanks for answers!
Cheers.

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