On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 06:43:17AM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 02/07/11 04:11, xunil321 wrote:
> > 
> > I have a lack of understanding concerning the handling of a disk based file
> > volume to
> > avoid a disk overflow. Let's say there is a 100MB file volume "Volume-1".
> > What will be 
> > happen after the Volume Retention Period when the Recycle and AutoPrune are
> > set to 
> > "Yes" in our Pool setup?
> > Will Bacula 5.0.2 clean the 100MB contents of the file "Volume-1" so that it
> > will start from
> > scratch or do i have to delete/relabel the volume manually for further
> > usage?
> 
> Starting with 5.0.x, there is a feature by which purged disk volumes can
> be automatically truncated.  This feature was BROKEN AND UNSAFE in
> 5.0.1.  It is my recollection that it is fixed, and works properly, in
> 5.0.3...  but as with all things, test first before you put it into
> production, just to be sure.

I can save you some testing and tell you that this feature doesn't work because
it doesn't truncate automatically.

See the last comment here:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/02/01/new-actiononpurge-feature/


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