On 2/7/2011 6:54 AM, Graham Keeling wrote:
> 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/

It does work with 5.0.3. A simple console command, 'purge volume 
action=all pool=pool_name', can easily be scripted with the RunScript 
directive. I run it as a "run after" script in my catalog backup job, 
but it can be run before a particular job, etc. just as easily.

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