Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes purged but not recycled

2015-03-24 Thread Michael Schwager
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Michael Schwager < mschwa...@mochotrading.com> wrote: > The question then is: How do I get a Purged, Recycle-able tape to get > written to starting at the beginning? Do I need to delete it and re-add it? ​Ooops- I figured it out. The order of operations that was

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes purged but not recycled

2015-03-24 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Michael, Bacula will only recycle a volume when there is no appendable volume in the pool. If automatic volume labeling is configured, it will try to label a new one. If none of this occurs, then it will try to recycle one. And when Bacula recycles a volume it overwrites the contents of that vo

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes purged but not recycled

2015-03-24 Thread Michael Schwager
On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Ana Emília M. Arruda < emiliaarr...@gmail.com> wrote: > When the volumes 16 to 26 were created, do you had "Recycle = yes" > configured in this pool? It seems that these volumes were created without > this option configured in your pool. Every change you made in y

Re: [Bacula-users] Volumes purged but not recycled

2015-03-23 Thread Ana Emília M . Arruda
Hi Michael, When the volumes 16 to 26 were created, do you had "Recycle = yes" configured in this pool? It seems that these volumes were created without this option configured in your pool. Every change you made in your pools configurations, they must be updated to the existing volumes in catalog:

[Bacula-users] Volumes purged but not recycled

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Schwager
Hello, I am running Bacula 5.0.0 on Centos 6.5 *. I have old tapes that are in Purged VolStatus and one of them is in our tape Changer library but Bacula is not using it. Is there something I need to do to Purged volumes to make Bacula write to them? I have a retention period of 90 days on my tape