On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Kevin Thorpe <kevin AT pricetrak DOT com> 
wrote:
> I have a problem with recycling tapes. If you look at the tape below
> from list media, surely
> it should have been recycled by now (today being 30/10/08)? When does
> bacula recycle tapes?
> It's a single drive, no changer. We're getting confused as to which tape
> it needs.
>
>
>  | MediaId | VolumeName        | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        |
> VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType |
> LastWritten         |
> |      15 | friday-five-two   | Used      |       1 | 148,473,206,784
> |      150 |    1,814,400 |       1 |     0 |         1 | DLT-VS1   |
> 2008-09-06 00:24:48 |
>

Your recycle period appears to be 21 days (if my math is correct). So
yes the retention period is over. However, bacula will only recycle a
volume when it does not have a writable volume in the pool it needs.
Did it ask you for a different volume or block?


John

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