Jon Schewe wrote:
> 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?

I asked this same question recently.  There isn't a standard one.  I
will be writing one shortly for my own needs.


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