On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, T. Horsnell wrote: > Hm. I did just purge one of them at first, but bacula still didnt seem > to want to use it.
It may not grab the tape straightaway. Bacula has its own algorithms for tape reusa and a blank tape has higher priority than a purged one, etc. > BTW, I had a bad time with 'purge'. > I went into bconsole, issued the 'purge' command, chose the 'volume' > option and expected to be prompted for a volume-name/media-id to purge. > This didnt happen - bacula proceeded to purge all the volumes and I had > to recover the catalog from its backup. It's a good idea to read the manual. The purge command is extremely powerful - and primitive. AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
