You may want to upgrade bacula to 5.0.1.  One change I've noticed is that 
prior versions didn't purge/recycle tapes not found in the autochanger, 
which as a consequence didn't add them back into the Scratch pool.


> Hi,
> Yes, that's exactly the feature i need.  I'll put it in as a feature
> request, and I think i'll do some manual purges maybe monthly for anything
> over it's retention cycle period.
>
> Thank you.
> Dermot.
>
>
> On 30 March 2010 16:03, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>>> > > I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that 
>>> > > was
>>> > > used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is
>> > ever
>>> > > inaccessible).  We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put 
>>> > > into
>>> > > the empty slot.  This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not being
>>> > > replenished.
>> >
>> > I know. My requirements are different. No safe at the moment..
>> >
>>> > > You say you pick the replacement tapes from the oldest or new volumes.
>> >  Do
>>> > > you have to manually purge the oldest tapes before you can put them in
>> > the
>>> > > drive?  Do you use retention periods at all, or just cycle them 
>>> > > yourself?
>>> > > I'm curious if your method could solve my problem.
>> >
>> > Yes I use retention periods but only 1 pool recycles. The rest are
>> > archive that are run from manual jobs. Anyways in this situation I try
>> > to make sure that the pool that recycles always has old tapes in the
>> > changer so that automatic recycling will work. I know your situation
>> > is more complicated.
>> >
>> > You may want to submit a feature request. This should not be difficult
>> > to implement. Basically implement an option to disable the only purge
>> > volumes when needed concept.
>> >
>> > John
>> >


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