Hi,

recycling only happens when no appendable Volumes are available in the Pool.

Do you have entries with volstatus "Append" in the "list volumes" output in 
bconsole?

See also:
http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#AutomaticVolumeRecycling

Regards,

Stephan

On 01/10/2017 11:10 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> I'm having issues with bareos recycling volumes. Basically, its not. I have 
> volumes in the expired state, but they are never recycled, for reasons which 
> are not clear to me.
> 
> I have 3 Disk pools, and 3 tape pools, for Incremental, Differential, and 
> Full, which look thusly (only one reproduced here)
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = DiskFull
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes 
>   Auto Prune = yes
>   Volume Retention = 60 days 
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 20G 
>   Maximum Volumes = 15
>   Label Format = "DiskFull-"
>   Action On Purge = Truncate
>   Recycle Pool = DiskFull 
>   Next Pool = TapeFull 
>   Migration Time = 2 minutes
> }
> 
> 
> Pool {
>   Name = TapeFull
>   Pool Type = Backup
>   Recycle = yes
>   Auto Prune = yes 
>   Volume Retention = 181 days
>   Action On Purge = Truncate
>   Maximum Volume Bytes = 75G
>   Maximum Volumes = 15 
>   Storage = STK-L700
> }
> 
> 
> I have the standard WeeklyCycle, and after each backup to the disk pool, the 
> migrate job runs to migrate the job from the disk pool to the tape pool 
> several hours later, with the following job:
> 
> Job {
>   Name = "MigrateDiskFullToTape"
>   Type = Migrate
>   Level = Full
>   Pool = DiskFull
>   Storage = File
>   Messages = Standard
>   Schedule = "MonthlyMigrateFullToTape"
>   Selection Type = PoolTime
>   SpoolData = no
>   Priority = 20
>   Purge Migration Job = yes
> }
> 
> # Full Migration Schedule, 1st Sunday at 04:05
> Schedule {
>   Name = "MonthlyMigrateFullToTape"
>   Run = Full 1st sun at 04:05
> }
> 
> 
> Jobs are successfully migrated, but somehow volumes are never recycled, 
> witness the following volume (extracted from list volumes pool=TapeFull)
> 
> E01014L4 Full  2016-06-05 12:28:27
> 
> This has jobs on it which expired long ago; the volume should be marked for 
> recycling, but isn't.
> 
> What have I missed ?
> 


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