On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:41 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>> I already have a new volume with full backup, so now I want to purge
>> the old volume, then delete it and then delete the actual file
>> (750GB). Is that how it works?
>>

Here is an example:

jmd1 backups # ls -al
total 12698624
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root         4096 Sep 12 08:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 9 root video         240 Dec  6 01:34 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula 2147439475 Nov  5 23:10 Volume-0001
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula    6023623 Dec  9 23:10 Volume-0011
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula 2147461696 Dec  9 23:10 Volume-0013
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula  543222451 Dec  3 23:05 Volume-0014
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula 2147469390 Sep 28 23:05 Volume-0015
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula 2147435166 Nov 30 23:05 Volume-0017
-rw-r----- 1 root bacula 2147479768 Oct 20 23:10 Volume-0018
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root            6 Aug 31 23:28 bootstrap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1716838400 Apr 30  2006 john.tar.bz2
jmd1 backups # bconsole
Connecting to Director jmd1:9101
1000 OK: jmd1-dir Version: 2.4.2 (26 July 2008)
Enter a period to cancel a command.
*delete volume="Volume-0018"
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"

This command will delete volume Volume-0018
and all Jobs saved on that volume from the Catalog
Are you sure you want to delete Volume "Volume-0018"? (yes/no): yes
*q
jmd1 backups # ls
Volume-0001  Volume-0011  Volume-0013  Volume-0014  Volume-0015
Volume-0017  Volume-0018  bootstrap  john.tar.bz2
jmd1 backups # rm Volume-0018

John

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