Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge

2010-11-18 08:25:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding purge
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:22:41 GMT
>>>>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:41:06 +0000, Dermot Beirne said:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> I read that, and understand it doesn't run automatically, but must be
> called from a runscript, or whatever.
> However, my understanding is that the volumes need to be marked as
> purged before this feature will truncate them?
> 
> It does not purge them, but truncates any which have a status of
> purged when it's run.  I need something else to purge them first, and
> then run this to truncate them.  As far as I can see, the only time a
> volume will be marked as purged (apart from manually doing it) is when
> Bacula decides to recycle it, in which case it will be truncated
> anyway before being rewritten.
> 
> Am I missing the point of this feature completely?

You'll have to use purge (without actiononpurge=trucate) to manually purge the
volumes beforehand.

__Martin


> Dermot
> 
> >The documation explains how to use it the actiononpurge=trucate feature:
> >http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_5_0_1.html#SECTION00410000000000000000
> >It isn't intended to be automatic.
> 
> >__Martin

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