> I must be missing something here. Every day we take out the tape that was > used the night before, and put it in a safe (in case the comms rooms is ever > inaccessible). We then look for a tape from the scratch pool to put into > the empty slot. This is fine, except that the scratch pool is not being > replenished.
I know. My requirements are different. No safe at the moment.. > You say you pick the replacement tapes from the oldest or new volumes. Do > you have to manually purge the oldest tapes before you can put them in the > drive? Do you use retention periods at all, or just cycle them yourself? > I'm curious if your method could solve my problem. Yes I use retention periods but only 1 pool recycles. The rest are archive that are run from manual jobs. Anyways in this situation I try to make sure that the pool that recycles always has old tapes in the changer so that automatic recycling will work. I know your situation is more complicated. You may want to submit a feature request. This should not be difficult to implement. Basically implement an option to disable the only purge volumes when needed concept. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
