OK, since I am having such a nice conversation with myself, I thought I would re-open this issue and continue on.
OK, that is not the real reason. hehe :) Kern, I use vchanger with several removable eSATA drives, and also use a script I wrote to set the Enabled field when I change drives which sets all volumes' Enabled field to '0' except for the volumes currently available on the inserted drive - those are of course set to '1'. This solves a different problem which we have conversed about in the past on the list. My question is this: It looks like if a volume's Enabled field is set to '0', Bacula will purge it when it is supposed to, but does not move it to the defined Scratch pool, and instead purges it and leaves it in its current pool. This was the cause of my confusion which started this thread, because when I look for a vchanger magazine to use when Bacula asks for a volume, I do a: list volumes Pool=Offsite-eSATA-Scratch and was not finding anything available there. That is when I listed all media and noticed that I had purged volumes "stuck" in other pools - and ultimately realized that those purged volumes had their Enabled field set to '0' As a test, just now Bacula was waiting on a volume. I listed my volumes, saw that several volumes on vchanger magazine #2 were purged but left in the Offsite-eSATA-Diff pool. I inserted vchanger volume #2, ran my script which sets those volumes' Enabled field to '1', and ran an update slots command in bconsole. Bacula immediately did: 26-Jul 13:13 bacula-dir JobId 27448: Recycled volume "c0_0002_0031" and the job(s) continued on. I realize that setting the Enabled field outside of Bacula is a little non-standard, but don't you think that Bacula should move a volume to its specified recycle pool even it the volume is not currently enabled? I mean, even though the volume is disabled, Bacula is respecting the retention periods and is purging all the data on the volume from the db, so why not also respect the Recycle Pool? Thanks! And thanks for Bacula! -- Bill Arlofski Reverse Polarity, LLC http://www.revpol.com/ -- Not responsible for anything below this line -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
