Re: Unable to select tape in library...
Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.bacula.user |
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| Organization | IT-Service Arno Lehmann |
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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 -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users