On Monday 29 January 2007 09:59, Florian Schürfeld wrote: > Hi there, > > can someone provide me with a more detailed description of Volume > Status. > > I fully understood about "Append" and "Full", but i.g. wheres the > differnce between "Used" and "Full".
This is a good subject for documentation as it is not clearly explained in the manual. Full is set when either the Volume gets an I/O error or the end of the tape is reached (or the filesystem is full for a disk). Setting it to Full when an error occurs prevents Bacula from attempting to append to the tape, but lets it be read -- there probably should be a separate status, but that is how it currently works. Used is set when some user defined directive triggers telling Bacula it should no longer use the Volume -- i.e. number of files exceeded, number of jobs exceeded, write duration exceeded, ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
