Simple answer. Bacula doesn't automatically truncate volumes.
But you can do truncate automatically by script, that can be started
after backup job for example.

On 12/12/2013 09:08 AM, Silver Salonen wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> First of all, I'm using Bacula 5.2.6 on Debian.
> 
> I'm trying to get ActionOnPurge=Truncate to work automatically, but I 
> can't quite get there.
> 
> I've got it so far that when I purge volume and execute "purge volume 
> action=truncate pool=volumepool storage=clientstorage" then the volume 
> gets truncated on SD.
> 
> But shouldn't it happen automatically when I purge volume?
> 
> --
> Silver
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