[Bacula-users] Recycle question

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

Hello,

Some time ago, I promised to implement a "Recycle" 
command to Bacula version 1.31.  I haven't yet done
so and am questioning whether it is really necessary
or not.

It seems to me that the user can do a "purge" on
any particular volume, and that will almost accomplish
the same thing, in addition there are now three
parameters that can be specified for the Pool:

  Purge Oldest Volume = yes/no
  Recycle Oldest Volume = yes/no
  Recycle Current Volume = yes/no

Without going into the details, the above give quite
a bit of flexibility.

Does someone really feel strongly about having a
"Recycle" command?  If so, should it do the following?
 
  - request a Volume
  - Purge it (or prune it)?
  - If the above is successful mark it Recycle.

Best regards,

Kern

PS:
By the way, it is very likely that I will release 1.31
with the new Priority scheduling code (thanks to stimulation
from Nic Bellamy). All aspects of it now *seem* to be working,
but I'm a bit nervous about it because it represents quite 
a bit of "untested" new code.  The documentation will be
available in the next couple of days.