2011/5/25 Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>:
> 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.

I added this option to my pool but it's not working, I still see the
important size of the volume files on my drive.
I updated all my volume before purging.

Hugo

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