On Monday 31 July 2006 13:00, Alan Brown wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > >> One of the more annoying problems is that it will insist on recycling > >> tapes which are not in the changer, then block on loading them, when there > >> are purged recycling-candidate tapes available in the changer. > > > > Yes, this is probably to be expected since the current algorithm always > > recycles the oldest volumes. > > I don't mind it doing that. What I do mind is that it will demand that > volume in preference to purged tapes already in the changer. > > In the case I'm thinking of, I had loaded the oldest purged tapes into the > changer, but overnight pruning resulted in several other volumes becoming > purged and therefore ending up as recycle candidates too. > > > I can think of two possible solutions: > > > > 1. Implement a new directive (horrors) that says recycle only InChanger > > volumes. > > It's not such a bad idea, to be honest, as long as it's only InChanger and > status = Purged > > > 2. Mark all volumes that are not in the changer as Disabled, then they will > > not take part in the recycle algorithm -- at least when the code is finally > > written, since currently very few of the SQL statements are Enable/Disable > > aware (new feature of 1.39). Currently, you could change the VolStatus to > > something like Archive or Read-Only. > > What I did was to change the Inchanger tapes to status recycle by hand.
Well, I see this as a problem, but am not planning to do anything until I have a firm proposal in hand (Feature request) and a general consensus that it is the right thing to do. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
