> My volumes are of type files so using new volumes vs recycling expired
> ones just fills up the file system with old data. It makes it hard to
> manage and forecast filesystem space needs.
>
> I have never understood Bacula's desire to override my policy and insist
> on preserving data that I already defined as useless.

If one of the issues is getting rid of old data that goes beyond the 
retention period then one should be able to use the truncate volume on 
purge directive and then set up a way then to ask Bacula to purge those 
volumes once they are moved into your recycle pool (via a separate 
job/script that runs the appropriate bconsole commands).  As far as I 
understand things, Bacula won't do the truncate automatically when it 
marks the volume as purged and moves it into the recycle pool.

Bacula will still use new never before used volumes when it grabs one 
from the recycle pool (although I suspect if you knew what you were 
doing you could get around that by updating the proper time 
stamps/attributes on the media records for the truncated volumes so they 
would appear as "new") but if the used volumes are truncated then they 
won't fill up the file system and the backup data should be deleted.

hope this helps,


--tom


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