> My understanding is that the volumes will never be used/pruned/purged
> as long as a suitable tape can be found.

That is correct.

>  If this is correct, then
> only when there is no suitable tape in the autoloader, will Bacula
> start purging these volumes back to Scratch.

I believe so.

> It will be too late at
> that stage, as the purged volumes will not be in the autoloader, and
> therefore the backup will sit waiting for a tape to be loaded.
>
> What needs to happen for the volumes to be automatically moved to Scratch?
>
You may have to emulate this functionality with a script that calls
bconsole and does a manual purge. You would have to basically handle
the retention period external to bacula. That can be done with a
combination of database queries and manually echoing commands to
bconsole.

John

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