Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Brown
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Jonathan Larsen wrote: > Is there away to tell it to recycle regardless? That would help me better > determine which tapes i need to put into my autochanger. You can do it manually but I really recommend NOT doing this. I wrote a couple of "query" snippets to find tapes whic

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Dan Langille
Brian Debelius wrote: > I do two things. I run an admin script after each nights run, that > marks the last tape written to as used. I also run admin script before > each nights run, that moves purged or recycled media to the scratch pool. > > This after admin scipt is for windows. > > :_Mark

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Brian Debelius
I do two things. I run an admin script after each nights run, that marks the last tape written to as used. I also run admin script before each nights run, that moves purged or recycled media to the scratch pool. This after admin scipt is for windows. :_MarkAsUsed set tempfile="%working_dir%\a

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread John Drescher
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, John Drescher wrote: >>> Yes bacula will only recycle volumes when there are no other >>> appendable volumes in the pool. >>> >> Is there away to tell it to recycle regardless? That would help me better >> determine which tapes i need to put into my autochanger. >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread John Drescher
>> Yes bacula will only recycle volumes when there are no other >> appendable volumes in the pool. >> > Is there away to tell it to recycle regardless? That would help me better > determine which tapes i need to put into my autochanger. > I do not think so. John -

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Jonathan Larsen
John Drescher-2 wrote: > > Yes bacula will only recycle volumes when there are no other > appendable volumes in the pool. > > John > Is there away to tell it to recycle regardless? That would help me better determine which tapes i need to put into my autochanger. -- View this message in co

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Timo Neuvonen
>> Are there other volumes in state Append while the volumes are >> not recycled? >> >> Ralf >> > > Yes there are, and now I understand why. Because there is at least one > appended volume in that pool, it wont recycle the others until it needs > to. > Correct? > Correct. Another commonly forgo

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread John Drescher
> Yes there are, and now I understand why. Because there is at least one > appended volume in that pool, it wont recycle the others until it needs to. > Correct? > Yes bacula will only recycle volumes when there are no other appendable volumes in the pool. John --

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Jonathan Larsen
Ralf Gross wrote: > > > Are there other volumes in state Append while the volumes are > not recycled? > > Ralf > Yes there are, and now I understand why. Because there is at least one appended volume in that pool, it wont recycle the others until it needs to. Correct? -- View this messag

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula is not recycling/pruning/purging automatically

2009-01-06 Thread Ralf Gross
Jonathan Larsen schrieb: > > I am having an issue with my pools not recycling correctly. Right now i have > jobs that were last written going back as far as 2008-09-07 that have yet to > purge and go into recycling automatically. Below is one of my Pools and > it's configuration. All my pools a