On 02/27/10 13:18, Kevin Keane wrote:
> As for your second question, I would suggest a few changes:
> 
> - Do not allow recycling of file volumes. Instead, prune them and
> then delete the pruned files (you have to use an external shell
> script to do that). Otherwise, file volumes will never get smaller.
> Let's say that you have a file volume that holds a full backup with
> 100 GB. If bacula recycles that volume and puts an incremental backup
> with 2GB on it, the file will still be 100GB in size.

Note that bacula 5.0 has support for automatic truncation of purged
Volumes, but that one should only use the feature with 5.0.1; in 5.0.0,
it is broken, and DANGEROUS.

This feature, in 5.0.1 or later, should eliminate the issue mentioned above.

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