> when manually recycling a (used) volume with
> "update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle"
> this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless, Jobs that have
> been written to that volume will NOT be removed from the catalog. This
> results in invalid data, as the catalog will still contain data about 
> volume
> content that is no longer there.

I see "update volume" command as an "expert tool" that does a spesific
requested operation at an "atomic" level, it updates a requsted volume
attribute to requested value.
So, I wouldn't call this operation as "manual recycle" like you did,
it's not supposed to do anything but to update volume status.
To force a recycle I would consider either reducing the volume retention
period, and then applying prune, or using purge (be cautious with it!)


> Would you regard that as a bug?
>
I don't.

> Or is it a PEBKAC, as I should not use the update command to recycle
> volumes? Or ist it "just wait for these jobs to expire via their retention
> period"? Any recommendations on how to handle these cases?
>
> dbcheck is not able to find these jobs, btw; they look absolutely valid
> in the database, except for the fact that possibly two entries exist that
> point to the same region on a tape.
>
> Thx/best regards
>  Bastian Friedrich

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