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I would strongly recommend not pursuing workarounds. This part of the
software works just fine. I believe if your retention settings are
correct, the pruning will happen by itself after a mount, and if they
aren't no amount of manual pruning will save you.

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> I'm still wrestling with my problem of Bacula requesting a different
> volume although the one already loaded is eligible to be recycled. [1]
> As I cannot find a solution to the root problem I am now thinking about
> workarounds. One idea I'm currently pursuing is to preventively prune
> every volume after mounting it.
> 
> What I'd need for that is a way to issue from a script a prune command
> for the volume which is currently loaded in a specific standalone tape
> drive. Unfortunately the "prune" command of bconsole requires the
> volume name to be specified. Any ideas how to specify "currently mounted
> volume" there?
> 
> Note that the AutoPrune configuration directive does not help, because
> it doesn't work in the presence of appendable but inaccessible volumes
> in the pool.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tilman
> 
> [1] For details, see my postings:
> 
> Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 12:20:59 +0200
> Subject: Repost: mounted tape not accepted if another one has already
> been recycled
> 
> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:26:51 +0200
> Subject: Prune command does nothing unless the pool is requested?
> 
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