Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about recycle = no

2010-01-13 12:37:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Question about recycle = no
From: Jon Schewe <jpschewe AT mtu DOT net>
To: Timo Neuvonen <timo-news AT tee-en DOT net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:34:27 -0600
On 1/12/10 5:40 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>> So I'm backing data up to an external drive. I have maximum volume jobs
>> set to 1, to ensure that each job uses a different volume. I would also
>> like it such that volumes are not reused, so I assume I should set
>> recycle to no. Now the question is, when the retention period comes up,
>> will the volumes that are past the retention period be deleted? If they
>> are not, I'll run out of space on my external drive.
>>
>>     
> Bacula does not delete the volumes automatically. If recycling were allowed, 
> the volumes would be re-used, but never actually deleted in that case 
> either.
>
> If you need to delete the volumes, you have to do it manually, or using some 
> sort of admin job or script. And before deleting the volume files, also 
> delete the volumes from the catalog to prevent the catalog growing 
> unnecessarily.
>   
Has anyone written such a script to handle this?

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