On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:52 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> Basically my tapes are filling up and not recycling... by the looks of
>> things? yes my conf has  Recycle = yes in the job pool  and AutoPrune = yes
>> in the client section.
>>
>> >From what I understand this should now over write the tape when it is full?
>> Unless I miss understood the manual...
>>
>
> I hope I am getting this correct since it appears top posting and
> bottom posting is mixed here.
>
> Given that you have Recycling on in your config, bacula will recycle
> your volumes only when the retention period is up. The retention
> period is setup in the pool and is in effect when a tape is labeled or
> recycled so if you change the pool's retention period this will not
> take effect on already labeled tapes until they are recycled (using
> the old retention period) or you use the update volume command in
> bconsole.
>
> John
>



-- 
John M. Drescher

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