Hi Marco,

Am 05.11.2025 um 16:41 schrieb Marco Gaiarin:

 From time to time Bacula still puzzled me.

But... wasn't that the point of all (complex) software? ;-)

In a library i've initially setup a pool with 4 couple of tapes; after some
time, we have revised the backup strategy and keeped a pool with 4 single
tapes that we exchange weekly (one tape in the library at a time), and another
pool with two tapes for 'one shot' backups.

I've moved two tapes from the first pool to the second, reapply pool
parameters to volumes, purge the tapes; situation now is:

  *list media pool=VEN-CN-CNPVE3EEGLTOPool
  
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------+----------+---------------------+------------+
  | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes          | volfiles | 
volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | voltype | volparts | 
lastwritten         | expiresin  |
  
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------+----------+---------------------+------------+
  |     790 | AAJ664L9   | Purged    |       1 | 7,712,881,465,344 |      116 | 
  63,072,000 |       0 |    5 |         1 | LTO       |       2 |        0 | 
2025-09-26 07:01:34 | 59,578,708 |

I see "recycle=0" or, in Bacula Pool Directive terms, "Recycle = No".

That would be my first guess. Otherwise, trace the DIR's actions -- no idea what trace level would be suitable for volume selection, and of course if you have lots of activity, it will be a lot of noise, too.

Cheers,

Arno

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Arno Lehmann

IT-Service Lehmann
Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück



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