On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Kevin Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with recycling tapes. If you look at the tape below > from list media, surely > it should have been recycled by now (today being 30/10/08)? When does > bacula recycle tapes? > It's a single drive, no changer. We're getting confused as to which tape > it needs. > > > | MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | > VolFiles | VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | > LastWritten | > | 15 | friday-five-two | Used | 1 | 148,473,206,784 > | 150 | 1,814,400 | 1 | 0 | 1 | DLT-VS1 | > 2008-09-06 00:24:48 | >
Your recycle period appears to be 21 days (if my math is correct). So yes the retention period is over. However, bacula will only recycle a volume when it does not have a writable volume in the pool it needs. Did it ask you for a different volume or block? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
