Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-17 06:35:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge
From: Dermot Beirne <dermot.beirne AT dpd DOT ie>
To: graham <graham AT equiinet DOT com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:32:44 +0000
Hi Graham,
I think this is a key feature, and am surprised it's not easily
possible.  The user should have the choice.  I saw the blog entries
you refer to, and that bug appears to have been fixed, but I don't see
what use it is in the current system.  If it's not possible to get
bacula to purge a volume until it has absolutely no option, (which it
then truncates and relabels anyway) then under what circumstances is
the actiononpurge=trucate feature useful?

Hence I am wondering if I am misunderstanding how Bacula works in
regard to purging volumes.

There must have been a good reason to implement this new feature, and
I think it's what I need, but I can't see how to use it properly.

Dermot.



On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> Here is the pool definitions I'm using.
>>
>> Is there some way I can get the entire "disk" pool volumes purged when
>> they expire, so they are all truncated and all that space is released.
>
> I don't think that you're going to have much luck with this.
> If you do, I would be interested in how you did it.
>
> When the ActionOnPurge feature originally came along, I found a dangerous
> bug in it. The bacula people said that they would try to fix it in the
> next version.
> But as far as I understand it, the fix is that you shouldn't try to run it
> automatically.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/02/01/new-actiononpurge-feature/
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/01/28/action-on-purge-feature-broken-in-5-0-0/
>
>
>

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