You can disable the media with an admin job.  As soon as you do this the 
director does not want it anymore, until you enable it again.

Another way around this is by having an extra weeks worth of tapes in 
rotation.  Week 1 and Week 2.  With a 1 week retention, one set of tapes 
is always expired and pruned.  I have labeled the tape boxes with the 
day, and then I can swap the tapes inside the boxes as needed. to keep 
the weekdays correct.


Olaf Zevenboom wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> We have got a single-slot tapedrive and therefor do not have the luxury 
> of letting Bacula decide which volume/tape to use. So our configuration 
> forces Bacula to use a Monday-volume(tape), a Tuesday-volume(tape) etc. 
> I have implemented a RunBeforeJob which checks if the current date is a 
> holiday or not and forces the backup to be canceled if needed.
> However this leads to the need of multiple manual interventions as soon 
> as the holidayperiod has ended: when a pool of volumes is pruned for 
> instance the Monday volume gets pruned and on Tuesday (not being a 
> holiday) Bacula want the oldest available volume being the Monday 
> volume. The next day same issue. This obviously continues until the 
> retention-period in that pool is reached again.
>
> How can I let Bacula skip that volume one more entire retention period 
> (through a script)?
>
> Regards
> Olaf
>
> PS
> I have an idea how to do this but it will require extensive scripting 
> and as far as I know there is no "predict" command in bconsole to 
> predict which volume will be used next the script has to be flawless to 
> predict and manipulate the catalog. Sounds a bit dangerous to me. 
> Something easier and less invasive would be nice.
>
>
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