On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Michael Triska <Michael.Triska AT duf DOT de> 
wrote:
> Hallo bacula-users,
>
> we are running bacula 5.2.3 on centos with an Adic Scalar 100 Autochanger. 
> Two times a week the tapes with volstatus full are changed with new and/or 
> expired tapes. New tapes are labeled via "label barcodes" and added to the 
> scratch pool, then "update slots" is run in bconsole.
>
> Everytime a job starts and no appendable volumes are available in the 
> corresponding pool, bacula purges the oldest expired volume and requests it 
> to mount, although InChanger=0 is set. Our expectation would be that bacula 
> uses a volume from Scratch pool if no expired media is online within the 
> corresponding pool the job uses, but instead it requests the oldest expired 
> volume, regardless of its InChanger flag set to 0.
>

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I have had this issue for 2+ years. No solution yet, although I have
not really tried. The pool that causes the problem only needs tapes
about 1 time per month on average..

John

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