On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 4:08 PM, hozone <hozone AT tiscali DOT it> wrote:
>
>  2 week is gone, this is my report.
>  i've set max volume dimension to 5Gb
>
>  Volume Name          Volume Bytes       Media Type      When expire?    Last 
> Written
>  Volume Status
>  DefaultVolume-0001      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/02      2008/04/18   
>    Full
>  DefaultVolume-0002      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/17      2008/05/03   
>    Full
>  DefaultVolume-0003      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/03      2008/04/19   
>    Full
>  DefaultVolume-0004      1.86 GB         File    2008/05/17      2008/05/03   
>    Append
>  DefaultVolume-0005      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/10      2008/04/26   
>    Full
>  DefaultVolume-0006      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/10      2008/04/26   
>    Full
>  DefaultVolume-0007      4.66 GB         File    2008/05/17      2008/05/03   
>    Full
>
>  my question is:
>  why DefaultVolume-0001 and DefaultVolume-0003 was not used, even if they are
>  created before DefaultVolume-0001.
>  insted was used DefaultVolume-0002 (that became full), and then
>  DefaultVolume-0004 (that i'm using right now).
>

I do not see anything wrong with (only) what you are showing here. I
am pretty sure that Bacula will recycle the oldest written Full volume
that has its retention period elapsed when no other tapes in that pool
are available.

John

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