Cameron Dale wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run a 30-tape rotation for backups, with 14-day retention periods.
> This leaves about 2/3 of the tapes available for backups at any given
> time. However, when all the tapes go to status Full, and automatic
> pruning occurs, it seems like some of the tapes get skipped. Below is
> what my current media information looks like. After filling Castor-23,
> all tapes were full, so pruning occurred. As you can see, though all the
> tapes were written in order, tapes 3,4,6,9, and 12 were not marked as
> Purged. This means that as the rotation proceeds, these tapes will be
> skipped and my order will be screwed up.
...
> I can manually prune the volume using the Director, by entering "prune",
> selecting "Volume", then choosing for example 3, and the volume will
> then be marked as purged, but I want this to happen automatically. What
> am I doing wrong?
Are you using volume and job retention times?
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