> This is the first time the tape has been used by Bacula, I was using 
> NetBackup before. I did alter the offsite retention period a month or so ago.
>

In a bacula console issue the following command

update

and select

pool from resource

and follow the prompts.

Then

update

and select "Volume Parameters"

then select "All Volumes from Pool"

and set the pool

Here is an example of that:
http://old.nabble.com/How-does-a-change-to-Volume-Use-Duration-take-effect--tt15762130.html#a15765197

> Another question... I have 4 tapes that are reporting as FULL but have no 
> data on them. Both BAT and Bconsole are consistent with eachother on volume 
> stats.
>
> See attached for BAT illustration.
>
> Bconsole output:
>
> *list media pool=Onsite
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles | 
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten         |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> ...
> |      79 | 000082     | Full      |       1 |          64,512 |        1 |   
>  7,776,000 |       1 |   11 |         1 | LTO2      | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> |      80 | KL0445     | Full      |       1 |          64,512 |        1 |   
>  7,776,000 |       1 |   12 |         1 | LTO2      | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> |      81 | KL0367     | Full      |       1 |          64,512 |        1 |   
>  7,776,000 |       1 |   13 |         1 | LTO2      | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> |      82 | KL0385     | Full      |       1 |          64,512 |        1 |   
>  7,776,000 |       1 |   14 |         1 | LTO2      | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
> ...
>
> I've already issued a 'label barcodes' since I did just add some new tapes. 
> Not sure if there were new ones, could be since no 'last written' date.  Here 
> is the 'status slots' report.

>
I am not sure why that happened.

update volume parameters

volume status

and set it to append for each of these.

You may be able to do that in bat. I am not sure, I do not use bat.

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