Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 07/23/10 12:56, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: > Does this do the same thing as purge volume? Is one preferable over the other? > > *update volume=VOLNAME pool=Offsite slots volstatus=recycle Recycle=yes No, it does not. This will ONLY update the volume status, leaving all the records in the datab

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
2010/7/23 Simone Martina : > On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: > > I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume > expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position > to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? > > Whe

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
> Does this do the same thing as purge volume? Is one preferable over the other? > > *update volume=VOLNAME pool=Offsite slots volstatus=recycle Recycle=yes > Purge cleans up the database (removes db records for jobs and files that were on the volume) while update volume I am not sure. John

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
: bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume > I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume > expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position > to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? > purge

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread John Drescher
> I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume > expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position > to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? > purge volume John -

Re: [Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Simone Martina
On 07/23/2010 06:45 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? When I've to force recycling a tape,

[Bacula-users] recycle volume

2010-07-23 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I have a volume that I am recycling back into the pool before the volume expiration date. How do I simply wipe this tape or start the write position to the beginning of the tape to overwrite the old data? Thanks, JJ -- T

[Bacula-users] Recycle Volume to different Pool

2006-08-16 Thread Dennis Petschull
Hello there. I'm quite new to bacula, so please excuse me if the question is "too simple" or "dumb" :-) Here's what I would like to accomplish using Bacula: I have one tape drive and 10 tapes. No AutoChanger. I'd like to have 2 Pools. One for Full Backups with a Volume Retention of 8 weeks, and