Marek Simon wrote:
> Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume 
> for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for 
> bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them 
> instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use 
> either).

Indeed, recycling is the obvious approach for tapes.  For disk-based
backup, though, I have found it to be non-optimal.

> However you always can have a cron script or bacula admin job, which 
> finds the old volumes and removes them.
> I have similar script for deleting volumes older then 60 days, usefull 
> for automatic tide up when you often add and remove clients.

Deleting the volumes from disk is a simple problem.  I was asking
whether anyone had come up with a "standard" way to delete expired
volumes from the catalog as a scheduled admin job.


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