Hello Heitor, thanks for your answer.
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017, at 15:41, Heitor Faria wrote: > If tape has Used status, its volume retention is not over yet. That doesn't match what I observe. On my server I see tapes staying in the "Used" status long after their retention has expired. Only when Bacula needs a tape *and* it cannot find one with status "Append" or "Recycle" it will select one in state "Full" or "Used" and recycle it. > > How can I convince Bacula to recycle and use the tape I give it? > > You can forccefully recycle this tape with the purge command. Thanks, I'll try that, although I'm a bit reluctant because that command doesn't respect retention periods, so the operator must be very careful to select a tape that is in fact eligible for recycling. For that reason I'd have preferred the prune command. However I already tried that and it didn't help. It reported that all jobs had been purged from the tape but still did not recycle it. Regards, Tilman -- Tilman Schmidt til...@imap.cc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
