I originally had a very long Volume Retention in my Pool definition, I think it was set to a year. I wanted to make it much smaller, like a month. I updated the Pool Definition and set it to 30 days, and then in bconsole I ran update "pool from resource". This command completed successfully, however it shows VolRetention having a value of 2,592,000, which made me scratch my head. Then I ran update "All volumes from pool", and this command completed successfully, returning "All Volume defaults updated from "Default" Pool record."

Now when I do: list volume

It shows the list of tapes, with VolRetention set to 2,592,000.

When I do: show pools

It shows VolRetention = 1 month

So I scratched my head for awhile more and eventually guessed that there are 2,592,000 seconds in 30 days.

Now, when I do a: status slots

It still shows most of the tapes as Full, even though they haven't been used in 30 days. How do I know which tapes are available for use? I thought the status would change to Append or something. Will it just automagically start selecting the oldest tapes available?

Thanks,

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