Re: [Bacula-users] Difference between delete and purge?

Hemant Shah wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> Can someone explain the difference between the delete and purge commands?
> 
> I read the manual and it seems that they both do the same thing.

No, they do not.

If you purge a volume, all the jobs on it and their associated metadata
are deleted, and the volume is marked as purged/reusable, but the volume
is not deleted and is available for reuse.  If you delete a volume, the
entire volume is gone from the database, along with all jobs that were
on it and their metadata.

If you delete a job, naturally all of its associated database records
are purged, which may cause a volume to become completely purged.


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