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[Bacula-users] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data

2009-01-13 08:47:57
Subject: [Bacula-users] Manual Volume recycling and overwritten data
From: Bastian Friedrich <bastian.friedrich AT collax DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:27:49 +0100
Hi,

when manually recycling a (used) volume with
"update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle"
this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless, Jobs that have been 
written to that volume will NOT be removed from the catalog. This results in 
invalid data, as the catalog will still contain data about volume content 
that is no longer there.

Would you regard that as a bug? Or is it a PEBKAC, as I should not use the 
update command to recycle volumes? Or ist it "just wait for these jobs to 
expire via their retention period"? Any recommendations on how to handle 
these cases?

dbcheck is not able to find these jobs, btw; they look absolutely valid in the 
database, except for the fact that possibly two entries exist that point to 
the same region on a tape.

Thx/best regards
   Bastian Friedrich

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