I'm having a problem with over-writing recycled volumes. I have my jobs setup so that I retain file information for 90 days and job retention for 6 months:
File Retention = 90 days # 90 days Job Retention = 6 months # six months And my catalog has: Volume REtention = 6 months I have my tapes labelled sequentially and I overwrite them - no earlier than 6 months. However sometimes it will decide to skip a tape - I don't know why. I have purged the volume when putting it into my autoloader, so it should be considered available. The most recent time this happened, I noticed that it shows the tape as being written less than 6 months ago. That apparently happened when I did a restore from that tape - and for some reason bacula decided it had written to the tape. I'm pretty sure that when I did the restore, I set the tape read-only out of paranoia I'd forget the tape in the drive and it would've been over written. I believe I did unset the read-only switch on the tape and I did purge the volume: +---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ +---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 85 | Keck-084 | Full | 1 | 590132745216 | 720 | 15552000 | 1 | 1 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2009-04-11 17:48:50 | | 86 | Keck-085 | Full | 1 | 583355114496 | 585 | 15552000 | 1 | 2 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2009-04-12 00:04:31 | | 87 | Keck-086 | Purged | 1 | 579806631936 | 583 | 15552000 | 1 | 3 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2009-01-14 13:08:05 | | 88 | Keck-087 | Full | 1 | 573925976064 | 596 | 15552000 | 1 | 4 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2009-04-13 20:53:37 | | 89 | Keck-088 | Append | 1 | 106350418944 | 151 | 15552000 | 1 | 5 | 1 | LTO-3 | 2009-04-15 02:40:12 | So you can see it skipped tape Keck-086. How can I make it use this tape? Thanks for any help. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
