--- On Sun, 5/25/08, Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de> wrote:

> From: Arno Lehmann <al AT its-lehmann DOT de>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting full and all subsequent incremental 
> backups
> To: "baculausers" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 3:58 AM
> Hi,
> 
> 25.05.2008 06:07, Hemant Shah wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> >   Is there a simple way/query in bacula to
> prune/delete a full backup and it's subsequent
> incremental backups?
> > 
> > Here is what I am trying to do:
> > 
> > I backup data to tape and disk.
> > 
> > Run full backup to tape and then again to the disk on
> 1st friday of the month, run incremental backup on other
> days. I only want to keep previous one month's backups
> on disk. 
> > 
> > Example:
> >   Backup first month to the disk
> >   Backup second month to the disk
> >   Before backing up third month delete all backups of
> the first month.
> > 
> >   I have set retention period on the disk pools to 2
> months, but that will not remove all the backup jobs for
> the first month at same time.
> 
> True. However, I think retention times and automatic
> pruning are the 
> way to go.
> 
> For disk setups, just create two pools - one for full, one
> for 
> incremental backups.

  Yes, I have one pool for full backups and one pool for incremental backups.

> 
> Use "Maximum volume jobs", "Volume use
> duration" or any othe other 
> limiting directives to ensure only one run of backups goes
> to each volume.
> 
> Set the retention times to a bit below 2 months - 58 days
> or something.
> 
> Limit the number of volumes per pool, or pre-create the
> necessary volumes.
>


  I have set UseVolumeOnce to yes, so each client has its own volume. The 
volume name also contains timestamp.


 
> Then, Bacula will automatically recycle the volumes. It
> will not 
> automatically prune or even truncate the incremental
> volumes depending 
> on the pruned full volumes, but it will recycle them when
> it needs them.

  I do not want to recycle the volumes. I want to delete the files as the 
volume name contains timestamp.


> 
> Arno
> 
> > 
> > Hemant Shah
> > E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> > 
> > 
> >       
> > 
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