On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Gabriel - IP Guys
<Gabriel AT impactteachers DOT com> wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf Gross [mailto:Ralf-Lists AT ralfgross DOT de]
> Sent: 21 December 2009 11:38
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Purge Jobs
>
> Gabriel - IP Guys schrieb:
>>
>> I want to purge all failed jobs from bacula, before I synchronised my
>> disk which I keep the backups on.
>>
>> If I purge a job, will that job just be removed from the index, or
> will
>> the data actually be removed from the volumes?
>> [...]
>
> the job will just be removed from the database. The volumes will only
> be overwritten by bacula when they are recycled.
>
> Ralf
>
> (Gabriel says)
> Is there a way that I can force Bacula to use this space, so that when I
> finally syncronish, there isn't a few terabytes of wasted data? I would
> like to synchronise at full speed over the Christmas period
>

Bacula will only recycle volumes in their entirety so if you have a
volume with 1 good job on it and the rest bad the only way to free
space is to recycle the whole volume deleting the good backup. Also
the disk space reduction of the volume only happens when the volume is
used again.

John

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