On 01/15/2010 01:49 PM, Mike Holden wrote:
> 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.
>   
Found your script in the archives. I see you're checking for recycle =
1, so you have recycle set to yes in the conf file? Could you send me
the Pool definition that you use this with?

I don't suppose anyone has written this such that it works with bacula
directly so you don't need to know the database to make it work.

Thanks.

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