Robert Hartzell wrote:

> I know everything can be manually changed... Just trying to get a clear
> understanding of what exactly happens to a volumes attributes as bacula
> moves it in and out of the scratch pool.

After filing the observed behaviour of a scratch volume not inheriting 
the "Recycle Pool" attribute from the pool it is joining as a bug, here 
is the official answer:

"The RecyclePool is set only on Media creation, and you can only modify it
by hand after.

If you create the Media in the Full pool, the RecyclePool will be set, this
is not the case if you create it with your Scratch pool definition."

My take on this is that it should be changed.

If the Scratch pool is intended as source of volumes to be available to 
any pool, it should inherit all attributes of that pool upon joining it. 
If I see a volume is a member of "Pool X", I would expect it to behave 
the same way as the Pool X definition, not "Pool X except the Recycle 
pool may be different if this tape came from the Scratch pool".

Adding a Recycle pool entry to the Scratch pool is a workaround, but is 
unflexible if you wish to use different recycle pool entries in 
different pools.

Regards,

Richard

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