On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 08:57:43PM +0000, Stephen Pierce wrote:
> I've been using Bacula for only a few weeks, so I haven't gotten to the point 
> where my first backup job is older than my retension time (30 days). However, 
> when I used to do backups on real tape (~1998), I would recycle a piece of 
> tape media once all jobs on the tape were beyond the retention time. 
> 
> Since Bacula treats disk storage like tape media, can Bacula recycle old 
> file-based media too? If it could, then you wouldn't need to delete old disk 
> volumes, just have them automatically or manually recycled. 
> 
> Does anyone have any experience with automatic or manual recycling of 
> disk-storage media?
> 
> Steve

Sure thing, bacula handles disk based volumes quite well. You can
define a maximum number of volumes in a pool and have bacula
auto-label them and then, as the pool fills up and reaches its max
no. of volumes, bacula will recycle the oldest volume in the pool and
truncate / overwrite it in the process. 

Check the docs on pool definitions, there's a plethora of options to
provide you with very fine grained volume / pool handling. 

Cheers, Uwe 

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Humphrey Bryant [mailto:hbryant AT fogadaley DOT com] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:59 PM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.
> 
> Nice write up!
> Thnx mch..
> On 03/13/2013 10:48 PM, Dan Langille wrote:
> > I just did something similar recently.  Hope this helps:
> >
> >     http://dan.langille.org/2013/03/07/deleting-old-bacula-volumes/
> 
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