Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool

2008-10-13 11:06:01
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Deleting from disk based pool
From: Radek Hladik <radek AT eadresa DOT cz>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:06:51 +0200
John Drescher napsal(a):
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Radek Hladik <radek AT eadresa DOT cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>        I'm backing to disk based storage, every volume has maximum count set
>> to one job, so every pool has one file per job. Each pool is configured
>> with recycle period and volume count so it can hold just enough
>> volumes/jobs. For example for 7 daily full backups I have pool with
>> maximum 7 volumes and 6 days retention period.
>>        However I need sometimes to delete some older backups by hand, because
>> of low disk space, or because we sometimes manually run the backup and
>> it breaks the schema (the last backup is not old enough to be recycled).
>> I would like to ask whether there is a possibility to manually recycle
>> volume from console and/or if there is a way how to tell Bacula that
>> I've deleted some particular volume and that it should remove it from
>> catalog?
>>
> 
> use the delete volume command in a bacula console then delete the
> volume manually on disk.
> 
> John

Thanks for your advice. I tried this command once, it warned me with 
something like "Deleting data is genraly bad idea" and I think that 
there were some warnings in backup reports afterwards. But if this is 
the correct way how to do it, I will try it more thorough...

Radek

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