On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Chris Lieb
<chris.lieb+nospam AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
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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.
>
Bacula does not delete volumes from the disk.

> 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.
>
If you really want to do this you will have to roll your own solution.
Most likely this will involve a cron job scripting commands to
bconsole.

John

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