On 05/25/11 05:59, Hugo Letemplier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got some disk volumes that I just want to "erase" "on demand".
> Indeed, theses ones were not recycled for various reasons (not in the
> good pool, new job upgraded to full, bad retention times…)
> I don't want to delete theses volumes because I want to check that in
> the time theses volumes will be recycled and so I can validate my
> backup strategy.
> 
> All I want is to free the space used by theses old volumes because
> they have been purged .
> 
> I thought in keeping the file and writing a null value into it : maybe
> something like echo "" > /Volumes/LabelOfTheVolume
> I want to keep the label in order to reuse the volume

In Bacula 5.0.3, you can use Action On Purge = truncate, iirc.


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