Thanks Blake,
I am thinking migration is the way to go also. I'll look into your
patch tomorrow.
Thank you.
Dermot.
On 17 November 2010 23:30, Blake Dunlap <ikiris AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Basicly what I see here is that you really want a migration, not a copy job.
> This coupled with the patch from
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT
> net/msg04724.html
> should do what you want if you set the new option in the migration job (from
> the patch, believe it is "Migrate Purge Jobs = yes", as I said, it's been a
> while).
>
> You may also have to use a script to run the purge command on empty /
> expired volumes to get the truncate to act like you want before the volumes
> are reused, but I have a skeleton for that as well if needed.
>
> -Blake
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:07, Dermot Beirne <dermot.beirne AT dpd DOT ie>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Blake,
>> That sounds great, exactly what I've been looking for by the sound of it.
>> If you can provide this and some details of how to get it working, I
>> for one would be very interested and grateful.
>>
>> Incidently, how would using such a patch affect upgrading Bacula in
>> future, etc. I presume you are using it in a production environment
>> and find it stable.
>>
>> Does this patch replace the actiononpurge feature entirely?
>>
>> I'd suggest something like this should be considered for the next
>> version of Bacula.
>>
>> Dermot.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 17 November 2010 18:42, Blake Dunlap <ikiris AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>> > If you guys would like, I can attach the patch we apply to make
>> > migrations
>> > purge the jobs themselves as well and thus cause volumes to properly
>> > autoprune.
>> >
>> > We also run a perl script to prune/purge any expired volumes every few
>> > hours.
>> >
>> > -Blake
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:58, Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:32:44AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
>> >> > Hi Graham,
>> >> > I think this is a key feature, and am surprised it's not easily
>> >> > possible. The user should have the choice. I saw the blog entries
>> >> > you refer to, and that bug appears to have been fixed, but I don't
>> >> > see
>> >> > what use it is in the current system. If it's not possible to get
>> >> > bacula to purge a volume until it has absolutely no option, (which it
>> >> > then truncates and relabels anyway) then under what circumstances is
>> >> > the actiononpurge=trucate feature useful?
>> >> >
>> >> > Hence I am wondering if I am misunderstanding how Bacula works in
>> >> > regard to purging volumes.
>> >> >
>> >> > There must have been a good reason to implement this new feature, and
>> >> > I think it's what I need, but I can't see how to use it properly.
>> >> >
>> >> > Dermot.
>> >>
>> >> I agree, and I am sorry because I can't offer you any more help.
>> >> I was just stating how things appear to stand at the moment.
>> >>
>> >> > On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
>> >> > >> Hi Phil,
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Here is the pool definitions I'm using.
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Is there some way I can get the entire "disk" pool volumes purged
>> >> > >> when
>> >> > >> they expire, so they are all truncated and all that space is
>> >> > >> released.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I don't think that you're going to have much luck with this.
>> >> > > If you do, I would be interested in how you did it.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > When the ActionOnPurge feature originally came along, I found a
>> >> > > dangerous
>> >> > > bug in it. The bacula people said that they would try to fix it in
>> >> > > the
>> >> > > next version.
>> >> > > But as far as I understand it, the fix is that you shouldn't try to
>> >> > > run it
>> >> > > automatically.
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/02/01/new-actiononpurge-feature/
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/01/28/action-on-purge-feature-broken-in-5-0-0/
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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