Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not recycling: VolStatus = Error, all job are stalled

2009-04-20 01:00:48
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Tapes not recycling: VolStatus = Error, all job are stalled
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Erik Lucero <erik.lucero AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:56:38 -0400
> Thanks for the responses.
> I successfully set the volume status to "Used" and then tried to prune the
> offending volume. Bacula asked if I wanted to modify the retention period,
> which is currently set to be 1 year. I chose yes and tried setting it to 1
> day. Then I "list volumes" and the volume still has the same retention
> period in the pool (1 year).
>
Not sure of that. In 5 years of using bacula with over 200 tapes in
use I have never changed the retention period when I modifyied the
volume status. However I would never use only 1 day retention.

> Next I tried to purge the volume and Bacula reponds with:
> "0 Files on Volume "June08-02" purged from catalog."
> I should also mention that originally the volumes showing up as an error
> were added to the pool using "add" rather than label.
> Any other ideas or suggestions I can try?

These were the correct suggestions so what happened?

John

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