Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] delete volume not remove on disk?

2011-01-26 20:20:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] delete volume not remove on disk?
From: Dan Langille <dan AT langille DOT org>
To: Randy Katz <rkatz AT simplicityhosting DOT com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:17:40 -0500
On 1/26/2011 8:14 PM, Randy Katz wrote:
> On 1/26/2011 5:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
>> On 1/26/2011 7:55 PM, Randy Katz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I did a delete volume=volumenate and it warns me it will delete the
>>> volume and all associated jobs and I confirmed.
>>> I see it did indeed delete all jobs associated with the volume, however,
>>> it did not remove
>>> the actual volume from the disk. Is this normal behavior? Please
>>> comment, thanks.
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> BTW, this is quite clearly the expected behaviour. The documentation:
>>
>> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#delete
>>
>>
>> delete [volume=vol-name pool=pool-name job jobid=id]
>> The delete command is used to delete a Volume, Pool or Job record from
>> the Catalog as well as all associated catalog Volume records that were
>> created. This command operates only on the Catalog database and has no
>> effect on the actual data written to a Volume.
>>
>>
> Oh, sorry, yeah I remember seeing that before. So here is my issue:
>
> 1. There was a good volume with a Full Backup and then 2 or 3
> incrementals after that.
> 2. The next incremental said it could not find a good Full Backup so it
> made another Full.

Do you have this [error] message?

NOTE: Perhaps you altered the FileSet.... this will generate a Full backup.

> 3. I checked the next Incremental and it did see the last Full Backup.

message?

> So I assume *something* happened to the Full Backup, not sure what that
> could be at this point but now I am
> using double the disk space (this is a disk backup) so I wanted to
> release that space as the space will remain used
> until Max Full Interval is reached. I read somewhere in the list archive
> that you must manually remove the volume
> on disk (assuming one Volume per Backup) if you want to free up the space.
>
> So I want to make sure that the Volume *should* get physically deleted
> when the Max Full Interval is reached, is
> that so? This assuming one volume per backup, AutoPrune and Recycle are
> yes.

Bacula *never* deletes Volumes.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org/

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