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From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to get free hard disk space back ?
To: Jerome Alet <jerome.alet AT univ-nc DOT nc>


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Jerome Alet <jerome.alet AT univ-nc DOT nc> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:11:20AM -0400, Josh Fisher wrote:
>>
>> Changing the "action on purge" for the pool does not change it for the
>> old volumes that were created before the change was made. You have to
>> individually update the action on purge for each of those old volumes.
>
> Sorry I didn't mention it but I did this with :
>
>      UPDATE media SET actiononpurge=1;
>
> But still no volume is truncated excepted at recycle time, when possible
> (in our case not possible anymore for our Full storage pool).
>
> Since all storage pools are on the same disk partition, despite the
> Differential and Incremental storage pools having hundreds (they are
> small) of "dead" volumes, Full backups still can't happen because
> there's not a single recyclable volume in the Full storage pool.
>
> Any other idea ?
>

How big of a limit have you set on volume size? I usually set this to
10GB or so. Or do you have use volume once or some other way to limit
volume size / use duration?

John


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