I am looking for the same thing.
Can you send me the perl script?
Thanks.
Hemant Shah
E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
--- On Tue, 5/13/08, C M Reinehr <cmr AT amsent DOT com> wrote:
> From: C M Reinehr <cmr AT amsent DOT com>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Truncating Disk Volumes?
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 9:24 AM
> Mingus,
>
> On Mon 12 May 2008 15:22, Mingus Dew wrote:
> > I know that Bacula doesn't delete actual data, it
> just prune's from the
> > catalog based on Client, Job, or Pool configuration. I
> was wondering how I
> > can truncate disk volumes that have jobs/files pruned
> from the catalog, but
> > the data still exists. I'm running into space
> usage issues. I realize I
> > could limit the volume sizes, but that doesn't
> solve my situation of
> > deleting data.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> I handle this with a perl program which is run daily as an
> admin job. It
> filters a list of volumes from bconsole for purged status
> and then executes a
> system command to delete the files. I'm sure details
> vary greatly from site
> to site, but I think this is the generally accepted way of
> doing this.
>
> HTH.
>
> Cheers!
>
> cmr
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