Re: [Bacula-users] Puring/Pruning doesn't seem to be happening.

[Gabriele Bulfon]

....so....how does one force it to do it?!
Think: if the tape goes full after 3 jobs, and I have 4 each night, my last job will not be done.
And this is not acceptable.
If I tell bacula that the retention period is 12 days, I assume that 12 days later the tape will be recycled.
After all...how does bacula knows the true capacity of a tape, until it goes EOT?
Wouldn't it be easier to have some kind of flag to tell Bacula : "Ok, this tape is in the correct pool, look if it's recyclable, and if it is, don't even try to append. Just scratch and reuse".
I see many users asking for this. And I still haven't found a way to do it.
Always appending. But sometimes (some kind of randomly) it recycles....wierd....isn't it?

Gabriele Bulfon - Sonicle S.r.l. Tel +39 028246016 Int. 30 - Fax +39 028243880 Via Felice Cavallotti 16 - 20089, Rozzano - Milano - ITALY http://www.sonicle.com

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Da: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Data: 15 dicembre 2005 21.12.01 CET
Oggetto: Re: [Bacula-users] Puring/Pruning doesn't seem to be happening.

Hello,

On 12/15/2005 5:01 PM, Beren Gamble wrote:
> I'm going crosseyed, it's probably something simple, but i've been looking at it for too long.
>
> This shows the media i'm going to use for tonight's backup. The problem is, it's still set to append, shouldn't it have a VolStatus or Purged?
>
> +---------+------------+-----------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
> +---------+------------+-----------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | 6 | THURSDAY2 | Append | 99,017,877,864 | 102 | 1,036,800 | 1 | 0 | 1 | SDLT | 2005-12-02 00:22:38 |
>

Considering your retention period of 12 days, I guess that's what you're
aiming at.

And no, it should not yet be purged. Bacula only prunes jobs and volumes
when it actually needs a new volume. In this case, I suppose that, if
this evening there's no more space available or usable, Bacula will
prune this volume and then recycle it.
Arno

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