On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 8:09 AM, jaco santos <jacoramos AT yahoo.com DOT br> 
wrote:
> People think that my recycling is not working.
>
> Today are Wednesday on 13 day  and when I give a list * volumes see what 
> returns:
>
> Pool: Wednesday
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> |
> MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
> VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
> |
> 13 | VQUARTA | Append | 1 | 1,281,595,392 | 3 | 518,400 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
> DAT-72 | 2008-08-06 22:02:21 |
> +---------+------------+-----------+---------+---------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+--------
>
> See that the last time I wrote that was day 06 - the Wednesday in the past. 
> And the status continues Append.
>
> It did not get to be with another status because it already passed the 6 days.
>
> See my pool of Wednesday:
>
> Pool (
> Name = Wednesday
> Pool Type = Backup
> AutoPrune = yes
> Volume Retention = 6 Days
> Recycle = Yes
> )
>
> Do you have any idea why the auto recycling not this working?
>
Bacula will never recycle a tape that has the Append status. It needs
to be Full or Used. And only after it becomes Full or Used does the
Volume Retention period start. To get the tape to become Used you need
to use

volume use duration or maximum volume jobs.



John

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