John Drescher wrote:
>> 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
>   
That might well be a good solution, and address a couple other things, 
too. I suppose I have been too used to tar-style backups, where each 
backup ended up in a separate file. But you are right, it doesn't have 
to be organized that way.

Do you by any chance have a sample bacula-dir.conf that would illustrate 
how this would work?

What would be a good choice for the volume limit? I am backing up a 
total of seven machines; the largest is a 70 GB backup (full), the 
smallest is less than 1 GB. I would like to keep them all in the same 
pool because I quite frequently add or remove machines, and don't want 
to have to reorganize the pools all the time.

A second question I was going to post in a separate thread, but now it 
seems related: I have two external USB/eSATA drives, and can't figure 
out how to get bacula to rotate them on a weekly basis so I can take one 
of them off site.

Kevin


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