On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> prune
>> The Prune command allows you to safely remove expired database
>> records from Jobs and Volumes. This command works only on the
>> Catalog database and does not affect data written to Volumes. In all
>> cases, the Prune command applies a retention period to the specified
>> records. You can Prune expired File entries from Job records; you can
>> Prune expired Job records from the database, and you can Prune both
>> expired Job and File records from specified Volumes.
>> prune files—jobs—volume client=<client-name> volume=<volumename>
>> For a Volume to be pruned, the VolStatus must be Full, Used, or
>> Append, otherwise the pruning will not take place.
>>
>> purge
>>
>> The Purge command will delete associated Catalog database records
>> from Jobs and Volumes without considering the retention period.
>> Purge works only on the Catalog database and does not affect data
>> written to Volumes. This command can be dangerous because you can
>> delete catalog records associated with current backups of files, and we
>> recommend that you do not use it unless you know what you are doing.
>> The permitted forms of purge are:
>> purge files jobid=<jobid>—job=<job-name>—client=<clientname>
>> purge jobs client=<client-name> (of all jobs)
>> purge volume—volume=<vol-name> (of all jobs)
>> For the purge command to work on Volume Catalog database records
>> the VolStatus must be Append, Full, Used, or Error.
>> The actual data written to the Volume will be unaffected by this command.
>>
>> Afterwards, delete the actual physical file if you need to recover the disk
>> space.
>
> Can you guys give me an example on how to do this.
> My full backup on a new volume is done.
>
> now I would like to delete either everything older then december 1st
> or if I can't then the whole old volume.
>
> 1. How can I find out what is the VolStatus ? what command gives me that?
I guess you do it via list volumes
My volume is set as full so I should be good to go.

> 2. I have to switch it to full, how can i do that?
I guess this should do the trick:
update volume

> 3. Do I have any options to delete actual files from the volume aka.
> anything older then dec. 1st delete files and catalog data?

So do I do
purge volume=myoldvolume
or ?

Thanks,
Lucas
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