Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected

2009-12-11 16:33:41
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected
From: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
To: "bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:30:52 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 12:44 PM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] prune not working as expected
> 
> >>>>> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:11:38 -0800, Kevin Keane said:
> >
> > I have a couple older volumes that I expected to get pruned by now,
> but they
> > don't. I am using bacula 3.0.2 on OpenSuSE.
> >
> > Here is one example:
> >
> > |     244 | randamai_20091101223426_Full.bacula                    |
> Archive   |       1 |  93,005,712,230 |       21 |    2,851,200 |
> 0 |    0 |         0 | File      | 2009-11-02 02:11:00 |
> >
> > When I used the prune volume command, I saw the following (all as
> expected):
> >
> > Enter *MediaId or Volume name:
> > *244
> > The current Volume retention period is: 1 month 3 days
> > Continue? (yes/mod/no):
> >  yes
> >
> > But this volume remains unpruned even though it is older than 1 month
> and 3 days.
> >
> > One thing that might possibly be related: these volumes were created
> with
> > bacula 2.4.2. When I migrated to 3.0, I created a new database from
> scratch
> > and used bscan to import the volumes. That was about a week ago.
> Bacula
> > falsely assigned a retention time of 1 year; I corrected that with an
> update
> > pool command.
> 
> The problem is that the volume has status Archive, which was probably
> set by
> bscan.  You can only prune volumes with status Full or Used.

Thanks! Yes, I discovered that right after I posted. But even after I updated 
the volume status to Used, prune still does not do anything.

I also checked: there are no jobs associated with these volumes.


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