On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Mark <mark AT jibjab DOT net> wrote:
> Thanks in advance...
>
> I inherited this setup three months ago and I realize it needs updating
> however until a week ago it worked just fine.
>
> Now however I'm getting these 'use "label" command to create new Volume'
> failures when running scheduled full backups. There is an existing pool
> specicially for full backup and the configuration is set to reuse
> volumes from the pool. What gives?
>
Bacula will only recycle tapes that are marked Used or Full. After a
tape gets into that state the retention period begins. After the
retention period has elapsed then the tape is available to recycle.

>
> Additionally I have noticed the Volstatus = error on 4 of my 36 volumes
> and need to reset it, but am not sure how to go about that.
>

Do you care what is on these tapes? If not just purge them.

John

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