This may seem like a trivial question, but please bear with me. On page 86, under the heading 'When The Tape Fills', we see the following:
'This indicates that Bacula got a write error bedause the tape is full. Bacula will then search the Pool specified for your job looking for an appendable volume. In the best of all cases, you will have properly set your Retention Periods and you will have all your tapes marked to be Recycled, and Bacula will automatically recycle the tapes in your pool requesting and overwriting old volumes.' To me this means that Bacula will look for a previously-used, but recycled tape, but also that any appendable volume will work. This seems to be confirmed on page 316, which describes Bacula's algorithm for finding a suitable volume. Step two states: 'Search the Pool for a Volume with VolStat=Append. . .' The point is, logic, and a reasonable interpretation of the docs, inform me that a blank, labeled tape in the Pool, in the next available slot will be chosen, perhaps in preference to a Recycled volume. Is this the case? -- Tks n rgds, Richard White CNE6, Linux+ Network Engineer Mason County, Washington 360-427-5501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
