[Bacula-users] yet another volume recycling issue

Hi,

I'm having the hardest time getting volumes to be recycled, under version
2.4.4-1 (Debian 5.0).

I feel like I have double-checked every item mentionned in chapters 22 and 23
(Automatic Volume Recycling / Basic Volume Management), have forced what seems
like all the relevant values with 'update media', and have changed many relevant
pool options. I've restarted the daemons, and the jobs after each change. Even
following the manual purging/recycling procedure did not change the software's
behaviour.

Every time, the storage daemon prints the message "Cannot find any appendable
volumes. Please use the "label"  command to create a new Volume".

I've been using Bacula for a couple of years, and I realize that I've never
gotten through a full yearly cycle before, because of having blanked all my
catalogs and volumes a few times before because I wasn't satisfied with my
setup. So I've never seen the volume recycling in action before.
Things are apparently not as simple as stated in the manual and in numerous
messages on the list. What might I be overlooking ?

Here are excerpts of my setup for the relevant pool :

Pool: LBC Software Archive Tapes
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+
| MediaId | VolumeName  | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes        | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType    | LastWritten         |
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+
|       1 | Fujifilm_01 | Purged    |       1 | 178,965,709,824 |      179 |
7,776,000 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO2 Ultrium | 2009-03-10 08:19:21 |
|       2 | Fujifilm_02 | Full      |       1 |  40,301,968,384 |       41 |
7,862,400 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO2 Ultrium | 2009-03-10 10:39:00 |
|       3 | Fujifilm_03 | Full      |       1 | 187,139,884,032 |      188 |
15,724,800 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO2 Ultrium | 2009-05-20 10:52:30 |
|       4 | Fujifilm_04 | Used      |       1 |  75,389,556,736 |       77 |
15,724,800 |       1 |    0 |         0 | LTO2 Ultrium | 2009-05-21 08:23:47 |
+---------+-------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+--------------+---------------------+

Pool {
  Name = "LBC Software Archive Tapes"
  Pool Type = Backup
  Maximum Volumes = 4        # was disabled, changed to 4 with no success
  Recycle = yes
 #RecyclePool = Scratch
  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
 #Recyle Current Volume = no
  Purge Oldest Volume = yes
  AutoPrune = yes
  Volume Retention = 14 weeks
  Storage = "Tandberg Data LTO2 Ultrium Half-Height Tape Drive"
 #Use Volume Once = no                  # deprecated
  Maximum Volume Jobs = 0
  Maximum Volume Files = 0
  Maximum Volume Bytes = 0
  Volume Use Duration = 13 weeks
  Catalog Files = yes

 #Cleaning Prefix = CLN
 #Label Format                        # deprecated since v1.31, see Python
script
}

Lucas Cohen

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