Eric Bollengier wrote:
> Hello Bastian,
>
> Le Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:27:49 Bastian Friedrich, vous avez écrit :
>> when manually recycling a (used) volume with
>> "update volume=xxx VolStatus=Recycle"
>> this volume will be accepted for overwriting. Nonetheless, Jobs that have
>> been written to that volume will NOT be removed from the catalog. This
>> results in invalid data, as the catalog will still contain data about
>> volume content that is no longer there.
>
> The update command doesn't recycle anything... Use the prune or purge command
> for that.
>
>> Would you regard that as a bug?
>
> I would say that we should remove the Recycle status from "update volume"
> command.
I wouldn't. Because very occasionally I've had (my outdated version of)
Bacula try to append to the end of the existing data on a volume marked
'Purged' instead of recycling it completely. The normal user should
not, in the normal course of things, be using 'Update Volume' in the
first case unless special needs apply, but when they DO apply, removing
abilities from the tool would be bad.
>> Or is it a PEBKAC, as I should not use the
>> update command to recycle volumes?
The latter. That's not what the command is for, and not what it does.
Use 'Purge volume' to manually recycle volumes.
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