You may want to upgrade bacula to 5.0.1. One change I've noticed is that prior versions didn't purge/recycle tapes not found in the autochanger, which as a consequence didn't add them back into the Scratch pool.
> Hi, > Yes, that's exactly the feature i need. I'll put it in as a feature > request, and I think i'll do some manual purges maybe monthly for anything > over it's retention cycle period. > > Thank you. > Dermot. > > > On 30 March 2010 16:03, John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> > > I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that >>> > > was >>> > > used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is >> > ever >>> > > inaccessible). We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put >>> > > into >>> > > the empty slot. This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not being >>> > > replenished. >> > >> > I know. My requirements are different. No safe at the moment.. >> > >>> > > You say you pick the replacement tapes from the oldest or new volumes. >> > Do >>> > > you have to manually purge the oldest tapes before you can put them in >> > the >>> > > drive? Do you use retention periods at all, or just cycle them >>> > > yourself? >>> > > I'm curious if your method could solve my problem. >> > >> > Yes I use retention periods but only 1 pool recycles. The rest are >> > archive that are run from manual jobs. Anyways in this situation I try >> > to make sure that the pool that recycles always has old tapes in the >> > changer so that automatic recycling will work. I know your situation >> > is more complicated. >> > >> > You may want to submit a feature request. This should not be difficult >> > to implement. Basically implement an option to disable the only purge >> > volumes when needed concept. >> > >> > John >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
