Looking in the bacula logs to see why they are being marked as used ("Marking Volume "..." as Used" messages) may give a clue.
__Martin >>>>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:24:35 -0500, Brendan Martin said: > > Several months ago, I got copy jobs set up and working. Sizes, counts, > and retention settings were all identical to the corresponding primary > pools when I started. After a while, I began seeing copy jobs waiting > for appendable volumes. I began manually marking the oldest volume per > pool for recycling, then I increased the maximum volume counts. Still I > have copy jobs reporting no available volumes. This involves some > systems but not others, even with systems that are effectively clones of > each other. > > Today I discovered that volumes in the problematic copy pools are being > marked as Used before they have reached the Maximum Volume Jobs > setting. Some volumes contain only one or two jobs, where I have the > maximum set to six. > > I am running Bacula 7.4.4 on Debian 9. Any explanations or suggestions > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > Brendan > -- > > *Brendan E. Martin* | Systems Administrator II > > Department of Physics and Astronomy | Texas A&M University > 4242 TAMU | College Station, Texas 77843-4242 > > 979.845.7717 main | 979.845.2590 fax | bren...@physics.tamu.edu > <mailto:bren...@physics.tamu.edu> > > http://physics.tamu.edu > > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users