Am Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:29:54 -0800 schrieb David Koski:

> I am trying to recycle some tapes that have become used.  I have set the
> status to append:
> 
> ...
> 
> I have tried to stop and start the jobs and restart bacula without
> succcess. How can I force bacula to use tapes that have been used,
> without relabeling them?

to force the reuse of the volume you need to purge it.

http://bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#280

for automatic prune'ing see retention times in the bacula manual.

- Thomas


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