On Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:00:58 Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hello Bastian,
>
> Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:27:49 Bastian Friedrich, vous avez écrit :
> > 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.
>
> The update command doesn't recycle anything... Use the prune or purge
> command for that.
>
> > Would you regard that as a bug?
>
> I would say that we should remove the Recycle status from "update volume"
> command.

No, the purpose of the update command is to make an easy interface for experts 
to correct problems at a low level so that users don't go poking around with 
raw SQL. There are other update options that are even more dangerous, and the 
solution in my opinion is to add more documentation to the manual.

>
> Bye
>
> > 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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