On Friday 08 June 2007 09:28, Ryan Novosielski wrote: <snip> > > It will not happen until it is necessary, ie. the next backup begins, or > someone uses 'status dir' possibly (which needs to know for reasons I do > not recall). Bacula always avoids removing data. In fact, if you have > another volume in the pool that is appendable, AFAIK Bacula will never > recycle. >
wait a minute are you serious? I have lots of appendable volumes! i just relabeled a bunch of tapes: list media: | 23 | DefaultVolume-0006 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 24 | DefaultVolume-0007 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 25 | DefaultVolume-0008 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 26 | DefaultVolume-0009 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 27 | DefaultVolume-0010 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 28 | DefaultVolume-0011 | Append | 1 | 0 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | | 29 | DefaultVolume-0012 | Purged | 2,644,475,759 | 3 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 2007-06-07 12:44:55 | | 30 | DefaultVolume-0013 | Used | 1,971,864,651 | 2 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 2007-06-05 17:06:45 | | 31 | DefaultVolume-0014 | Used | 4,764,121,146 | 5 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 2007-06-08 08:37:45 | | 32 | DefaultVolume-0015 | Used | 4,755,372,018 | 5 | 7,200 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DDS | 2007-06-07 16:05:15 | +---------+--------------------+-----------+----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ So what to do, should I change their status to Used? Chantal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
