> I'm running Bacula 5.0.1 on CentOS5.4 with Overland tape library (this
> setup went with very little customization and I'm very pleased but I'll
> write another email when all set and done with all hardware details and
> install roadmap and hopefully it will help somebody).
>
> I need some help with media management.
>
> I setup a pool called FullTapes. Full type backup jobs can write only on
> tapes in the FullTapes pool.
>
> ---<snip>---
> Pool {
>   Name = FullTapes
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   File Retention = 1 years
>   Job Retention = 1 years
>
>   Volume Retention = 2 days
>   AutoPrune = yes
>   Recycle = yes
>   RecyclePool = Scratch
> }
> ---<snip>---
>
> I have one tape in the library that is in pool FullTapes and is marked
> "Full" and it's Volume Retention period expired. Also I have a hundred
> tapes offsite. Most of them are in pool FullTapes and are marked "Full"
> with expired Retention period.
>
> What I'm expecting is next time a full backup job runs to look into all
> tapes in FullTapes pool and mark the ones that expired as Purged and
> moved them in pool Scratch. Then recycle the one that is in the library
> and use it for the currently running job.
>

Bacula will not do that. It only recycles volumes when it needs a
volume and there are no acceptable volumes in the current pool.

>
> What happened is that the backup job ran, found the tape in the library
> and recycle it but it didn't touch any of the other tapes in pool FullTapes.
>
> Now I want to put more tapes in the library that can be recycled but I
> don't know which ones out of the hundred I have off site because my
> Scratch pool is empty. I have to manually get the details for each tape,
> find the "lastwritten" date and apply the RetentionPeriod to find out if
> this tape can be recycled.
>
> Did I miss something in the configuration that prevents me to get the
> expected behavior? Is there a command that will look into all tapes,
> purge the ones that expired and move them in Scratch?
>
> If not, then what do you guys do in this case? If you know you'll need
> more tapes for your weekend full backups how do you find out which can
> be recycled so you can put them in the library?
>

Did you implement the volume retention after tapes were labeled? If so
you need to open up bconsole and

update pool from resource

and then update all volumes in pool.

John

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