Firstly, John, thank you for the quick response !!


John Drescher wrote:

> 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.
> 


Excepting the tapes that show as 'error' the all show as 'full' [0]. Not 
sure how to proceed further, as the next volume bacula wants to use is 
mediaid 29 and it's shown as 'full'...


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

Well as they are unusable to me in their current state I'll just have to 
purge them :)



Thanks again,

- Mark





[0] partial list volumes report

Pool: Full-Pool
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+--------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes     | VolFiles | 
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten 
     |
| 29      | BEZ929L3   | Full      | 1       | 737240297472 | 738      | 
2592000      | 1       | 9    | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-06 
06:51:42 |
| 30      | BEZ930L3   | Full      | 1       | 470694905856 | 471      | 
2592000      | 1       | 8    | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-07 
17:01:10 |
| 31      | BEZ931L3   | Full      | 1       | 532642231296 | 533      | 
2592000      | 1       | 7    | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-04 
06:38:20 |
| 32      | BEZ920L3   | Full      | 1       | 479565563904 | 480      | 
2592000      | 1       | 18   | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-04 
17:57:37 |
| 33      | BEZ921L3   | Full      | 1       | 573118414848 | 574      | 
2592000      | 1       | 17   | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-04 
20:57:39 |
| 34      | BEZ922L3   | Full      | 1       | 472322479104 | 473      | 
2592000      | 1       | 16   | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-04 
15:20:52 |
| 36      | BEZ924L3   | Full      | 1       | 439641667584 | 440      | 
2592000      | 1       | 14   | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-05 
17:00:48 |
| 41      | BEZ941L3   | Error     | 1       | 477969408000 | 478      | 
2592000      | 1       | 22   | 1         | LTO-3     | 2008-08-06


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