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I am setting up Bacula right now for the first time and have pretty much
everything working, but have one nagging concern.  Since Bacula was
designed around tape backup systems, it supports recycling of volumes so
that they can be used again after a certain period of time.  However, I
do not think that this is very useful for a hard drive-based backup setup.

My setup currently is using the three pool system (Full-Diff-Incr) that
is mentioned in the Bacula documentation.  My labeling scheme produces a
unique label for every volume (1 job per volume).  When a volume reaches
a certain age, based on the pool that it is in, I want the volume to be
deleted from disk instead of recycled.  You can purge files from the
database as part of the configuration, but I don't see any way to have
Bacula delete volumes over a certain age.

How can this be achieved?  I am using Bacula 2.4.4 for my director,
storage, and all file daemons, with the director and storage daemons
running on a current Linux install and the backups being stored onto
their own hard drive.

I can post config files if needed.

Thanks,
Chris Lieb
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