Hi,

I have the same issue. There is no way I think, only custom script can
help. It can be good feature request for bacula developers.

BTW, you must not delete job by id's. It is sufficient to purge volumes.
When purge take place all associated job id's are removed from database
automatically. Then you can truncate volumes (purge volume
action=truncate ...) and they will be ready for use for new backups.

It is possible to make a script that checks he database for last full
backup and removes all prior incremental and differential backups.

JS

On 11/25/2013 06:42 PM, Teun Ouwehand [Nextpertise] wrote:
> Hello Bacula Enthusiast,
> 
> One of my backup client has a lot of files, so we decided a year ago only to 
> backup this client 2 times a year. With a file/job delete policy of 190 days. 
> And this turned out to work well.
> 
> But there is one issue with housekeeping,
> 
> I have a lot of incremental backups which has no parent full backup and there 
> is no need to keep them since there is a new one already.
> 
> Is there an option to prune backups when there parent full backup is  gone? 
> If not is a housekeeping script the best option? Today I did it by hand 
> (delete jobid=id, delete volume=volume and delete the volume file on the disk)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Nextpertise
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