Thanks Bill,  see below...

> On 19. Apr 2023, at 22:05, Bill Arlofski <w...@protonmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I just checked and I see that my memory was working correctly this morning...
> 
>>> I will ask my colleagues if they remember this issue in the Enterprise 
>>> version and if it was address/modified/fixed.
>>> 
>>> Be right back. :)
>> 
>> OK waiting :)
> 
> There was a ticket/bug where a customer had reported this same issue where 
> the truncate command always used the first Drive
> device in the disk Autochanger, but this has since been addressed.

In what version of Bacula has it been fixed? It is still a problem in 11.0.6. 
At least truncate doesn’t choose an unoccupied drive, you have to explicitly 
choose one manually.

> In bconsole, just type `truncate` and hit tab a few times to see what the 
> options are:
> 
> *truncate
> allpools    drive=      mediatype=  pool=       storage=    volume=
> 
> 
> Notice `drive=xxx` can be specified.  I think you will need to specify 
> `DriveIndex=xxxx` (starting at 0) for each drive
> device in the Autochanger too. If not for this reason, I am 100% sure there 
> is another reason I had come across and had to
> prove to my colleagues several years back. :)

yes, with this it does work. Thanks for your help!




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