>>>>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:34:33 +0300, Mantas M said:
> 
> Hi Ryan,
> 
> What i am trying to do is to force bacula not to reuse any previously 
> written volume EVER.

Have you tried setting the VolStatus to Archive on those volumes?

__Martin


> 
> It's really weird that bacula thinks this volume has no data on it 
> (thanks by the way, i havent noticed that myself :-) ).
> All volumes contain data, I can restore every one of them.
> 
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> > I have deleted the original e-mail that contained the problem. ;) Please
> > leave the whole e-mail text intact as it helps people who want to join
> > in mid-way, even if they have deleted earlier mail.
> >
> > Keep in mind that the Recycle flag here is different than Recycle
> > status. Again, I don't have the initial e-mail so I forget what is being
> > attempted here, but it may be tricky to keep it from writing to a volume
> > that has no data on it, because it will typically be more appealing than
> > any volume that does.
> >
> > =R
> >
> > Mantas M. wrote:
> >   
> >> Thanks for your reply Ryan.
> >>
> >> I am aware that volume settings are read when volume is created. Current 
> >> volumes, however, were written after the settings were changed to their 
> >> current values, so database should contain current settings, right?
> >>
> >> Here's the output of "update" command:
> >> +---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> >> | MediaId | VolumeName        | VolStatus | VolBytes | VolFiles | 
> >> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | 
> >> LastWritten         |
> >> +---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> >> |       4 | 2007-03-27-Mantas | Recycle   |        1 |        0 |    
> >> 5,184,000 |       0 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2007-03-29 04:53:15 |
> >> +---------+-------------------+-----------+----------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> >> Enter MediaId or Volume name: Unexpected question has been received.
> >> 4
> >> Updating Volume "2007-03-27-Mantas"
> >> Current recycle flag is: no
> >> Enter new Recycle status: Unexpected question has been received.
> >> No
> >> New Recycle flag is: no
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> I've tried setting the VolStatus to "Used", but in scheduled jobs bacula 
> >> still indicates that it is going to use the the same volume.
> >>
> >> What am I doing wrong?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> >>> Remember to always update your volumes from the pool. The volumes get
> >>> their settings when they are created, not when you change the config
> >>> file. See the manual for more information.
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