> I am learning how to use bacula to back up to external hard disks.
> Everything works beautifully, but I notice that after a volume is purged
> or pruned, it gets status "Recycled" and the actual file on disk stays.
> That looks like perfect behavior for a tape backup, but for a hard disk
> backup, I would like to be able to completely delete the volume from the
> database, and also delete the corresponding file on the hard disk so it
> no longer takes up space.
>
Bacula does not have this feature. I would just limit the disk volumes
to a few GB and at the proper time the disk volumes will be reused.

John

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