--- On Wed, 4/14/10, Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> wrote:
>
> Once purged, you can either let Bacula recycle them itself,
> or you can
> use the Update Volume command to manually change the volume
> status to
> Recycle. This is a particularly straightforward
> operation if you are
> using BAT, since you can do it on all the volumes at once.
>
OK, my next backup ran and it used the next volume. Success!
However.. it "appended". Here's what my volumes look like now:
*list volumes
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
Pool: Default
No results to list.
Pool: File
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| 25 | disk_0001 | Purged | 1 | 37,353,382 | 0 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:10:03 |
| 26 | disk_0002 | Purged | 1 | 5,125,873,046 | 1 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-13 23:10:02 |
| 27 | disk_0003 | Append | 1 | 7,009,019,184 | 1 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-14 23:21:34 |
| 28 | disk_0004 | Purged | 1 | 51,194,220 | 0 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-07 23:21:59 |
| 29 | disk_0005 | Purged | 1 | 10,436 | 0 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:05:03 |
| 30 | disk_0006 | Purged | 1 | 561 | 0 |
777,600 | 1 | 0 | 0 | File | 2010-04-08 23:07:14 |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
Pool: Scratch
No results to list.
*
Whatever was on disk_0003 was left in place, and the new backup data appended
to that volume. Is there a way to make it wipe the volume clean before writing?
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