On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:32:44AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
> 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.

I agree, and I am sorry because I can't offer you any more help.
I was just stating how things appear to stand at the moment.

> 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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