Mingus,
On Mon 12 May 2008 15:22, Mingus Dew wrote:
> I know that Bacula doesn't delete actual data, it just prune's from the
> catalog based on Client, Job, or Pool configuration. I was wondering how I
> can truncate disk volumes that have jobs/files pruned from the catalog, but
> the data still exists. I'm running into space usage issues. I realize I
> could limit the volume sizes, but that doesn't solve my situation of
> deleting data.
>
> Thanks
I handle this with a perl program which is run daily as an admin job. It
filters a list of volumes from bconsole for purged status and then executes a
system command to delete the files. I'm sure details vary greatly from site
to site, but I think this is the generally accepted way of doing this.
HTH.
Cheers!
cmr
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