On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote:

> Hm. I did just purge one of them at first, but bacula still didnt seem
> to want to use it.

It may not grab the tape straightaway. Bacula has its own algorithms for
tape reusa and a blank tape has higher priority than a purged one, etc.

> BTW, I had a bad time with 'purge'.
> I went into bconsole, issued the 'purge' command, chose the 'volume'
> option and expected to be prompted for a volume-name/media-id to purge.
> This didnt happen - bacula proceeded to purge all the volumes and I had
> to recover the catalog from its backup.

It's a good idea to read the manual. The purge command is extremely
powerful - and primitive.

AB



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