On 17 November 2010 18:42, Blake Dunlap <
ikiris AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> If you guys would like, I can attach the patch we apply to make migrations
> purge the jobs themselves as well and thus cause volumes to properly
> autoprune.
>
> We also run a perl script to prune/purge any expired volumes every few
> hours.
>
> -Blake
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:58, Graham Keeling <
graham AT equiinet DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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