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+\subsection{Deleting Volumes}
+The delete volume bconsole command has been modified to
+require an asterisk (*) in front of a MediaId otherwise the
+value you enter is a taken to be a Volume name. This is so that
+users may delete numeric Volume names. The previous Bacula versions
+assumed that all input that started with a number was a MediaId.
+
+This new behavior is indicated in the prompt if you read it
+carefully.
+
\section{Bare Metal Recovery}
The old bare metal recovery project is essentially dead. One
of the main features of it was that it would build a recovery
a drive with a valid Volume already mounted in preference to a drive
that is not ready. This means that all jobs will attempt to append
to the same Volume (providing the Volume is appropriate -- right Pool,
- ... for that job). If no drive with a suitable Volume is available, it
+ ... for that job), unless you are using multiple pools.
+ If no drive with a suitable Volume is available, it
will select the first available drive. Note, any Volume that has
been requested to be mounted, will be considered valid as a mounted
volume by another job. This if multiple jobs start at the same time
This means that the job will prefer to use an unused drive rather
than use a drive that is already in use.
+ Despite the above, we recommend against setting this directive to
+ {\bf no} since
+ it tends to add a lot of swapping of Volumes between the different
+ drives and can easily lead to deadlock situations in the Storage
+ daemon. We will accept bug reports against it, but we cannot guarantee
+ that we will be able to fix the problem in a reasonable time.
+
+ A better alternative for using multiple drives is to use multiple
+ pools so that Bacula will be forced to mount Volumes from those Pools
+ on different drives.
+
\item [Prune Jobs = \lt{}yes|no\gt{}]
\index[dir]{Prune Jobs}
\index[dir]{Directive!Prune Jobs}