On Wednesday 20 September 2006 12:16, Alan Brown wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > > Jo Rhett writes: > > > >> Sorry, Kern, but this isn't true. Recycling DOES work properly, but > >> "create a new volume" is happening earlier in the decision process > >> than the recycling. You have to hit max volumes to make recycling happen. > > > > Sometimes it does happen. Just not every time. :-( > > I am going to provide Kern with the list of items he requested in the coming > > days so hopefully that will help to clarify what is happening (at least in > > my setup). > > If a pool doesn't have maximum volumes defined then Bacula will prefer to > demand new volumes over forcibly purging older volumes. > > If volumes become free through pruning _and_ expiration(*) then they get > marked as "purged" and are immediately available for recycling - these > will be used in preference to creating new volumes. > > > (*) If Job/File/Volume expiry periods are different, then it's common to > see a tape with no files or jobs listed in the database, but which is > still not-yet-expired.
Alan has some good points that everyone should keep in mind (including myself) -- as I said, recycling is rather complicated. I suspect that the above points are not sufficiently stressed in the manual -- I'll look at doing so. Thanks, Alan. Best regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
