Re: [Bacula-users] what does truncate actually mean?

Hello,

2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>

On 2013-09-17, at 4:43 PM, Radosław Korzeniewski <radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net> wrote:

Hello,

2013/9/17 Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>

I'm trying to find out what "truncate" actually means in the context of bacula and purging..

Does it reduce the volume size to 0, or?

Yes, it reduces a volume size to a size of Bacula label.

Is there a trick to making it work? I just enabled it on Action after purge, went into bconsole and reloaded teh config file and then purged a file and its size did not change.

When you check a source code, you'll find:

* Look for all Purged volumes that can be recycled, are enabled and

* have more the 10,000 bytes.

mr.Recycle = 1;

mr.Enabled = 1;

mr.VolBytes = 10000;

so, all above requirements should be met for proper truncate.

And then a bconsole command: purge volume action="" allpools storage=bacula-sd is working like a charm.

best regards

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Radosław Korzeniewski
radoslaw AT korzeniewski DOT net

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