John Drescher wrote:
>>>> That's what I intend to do as well by changing the find to be this:
>>>>
>>>> find /mnt/mybook/bacula -mtime +65
>>>>
>>>> This finds all files that haven't been modified in 65 days or more. If
>>>> the retention period is set to 60 days, this would be a pretty safe way
>>>> to do it.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Looks good to me. Some may want different retention periods per pool
>>> but with labeling the volumes this would be easy to adjust.
>>
>> True, there is that approach.
>> What I'm actually thinking of is going the other way:  get Bacula to
>> tell me what volumes have been pruned and moved into the Scratch pool,
>> then delete them and their disk files.
>>
>
> That would be a little more complicated but more accurate as you are
> letting bacula decide what gets removed instead of externally forcing
> the issue.
>
> John

I posted a script recently on another thread which takes care of purging, 
deleting
volumes and deleting the files based on individual retention periods. Check the 
archives
over the last couple of weeks or so.
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