Hello Michael,

When you use bscan to restore jobs and files information from a volume into catalog, a new jobid is created for the original jobid (the jobid that used the volume for its backup). This is why you have the JobId 687 and not the original one. This is the JobId that you will find in your Job table. And this is the jobId that Bacula will tie to your media in JobMedia table.

If the bscan operation is usual for you, I would recommend you to have an Admin Job doing prune operations of your jobs scheduled in an adequate date/time for your environment.

Also, I would remember you that you can use bls/bextrac/bscan to restore the directories/files without restoring the volume/job info into catalog.

Best regards,

Ana 

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 7:15 PM, Michael Schwager <mschwager AT mochotrading DOT com> wrote:

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 5:43 PM, Michael Schwager <mschwager AT mochotrading DOT com> wrote:

Starngely, we have another tape that SHOULD be available. Tapes in this pool are set to recycle after 90 days, and 90 days ago from today is May 4th.

​ We have a tape that was last written to on March 28. So why would Bacula block on the unavailable tape?

​To answer my own question (with help from the other denizens of the Bacula-cave): ​

A couple of months ago I needed to do a restore, but I had set some of the retention times too short. So the files for my Job were not in the database any longer. I scanned the tape and got the data back into the database. I'm not exactly sure what I'd done or why it broke, but I can tell you that the JobMedia database rows included references to JobId 687, and that was the ID of a job that contained my file. In any case, I'm sure these old references were what caused Bacula to not be able to mark the tape as recyclable, and it thought the tape was in use, so it requested the next tape in line (EPW681L3).

I'm beginning to learn about the reasons why behind the warnings not to purge, and to let Bacula manage everything, and so on. At this point I think my Bacula is where I want it and I can move forward.

Thank you all for your help, suggestions, and patience.

- Mike Schwager

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