Hello,

On Tuesday 12 June 2007 10:32, Andreas Helmcke wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have just played a bit with some of the new features of bacula V2.1.12
> and have the following "problem":
> 
> When using the new option "RecyclePool = Scratch" in the pool definition
> there is conflict with the changed schema of pruning volumes.
> As I understand and have seen the new version only does pruning when
> absolutely necessary (i.e. not finding any appendable volume in the
> pool) but it will only prune volumes of the pool, the jobs is using.
> 
> So lets construct a situation:
> 
> - Autochanger
> - Job starting which uses Pool1
> - no appendable volume in Pool1 in changer
> - no volume, which can be pruned in Pool1 in changer
> - no volume in Scratch pool in changer
> 
> so this job will be halted, waiting for the operator to supply a volume.
> 
> But: in the autochanger _are_ some volumes of Pool2 which can be purged
> (they are expired) and Pool2 is configured with "RecyclePool = Scratch".
> So this volumes _can_ be used for the waiting job but never will,
> because the volumes in Pool2 will not get pruned.
> 
> This said I fear that the "RecyclePool" option isn't as useful as it
> could and should be.

I believe that I have now resolved this problem, as well as some others 
related to the new "minimal" pruning.  I have tested it for proper recycling, 
but don't yet have a test involving the Scratch pool.  If you have some way 
of testing this, I would appreciate your feedback.  The new code was 
committed in SVN revision 5124.

Regards,

Kern


> 
> Andreas
> 
> 
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