Re: [Bacula-users] List Volumes without Job ?

Hello David,

You can use the "prune" command for this purpose. Bacula will only prune volumes with no jobs (and files consequently) associated to it.

I would recommend you to use the prune command instead of the purge command since the former respects the retention periods and the latter do not.

You can have an admin job configured to run a prune of all your volumes and then the truncate. This admin job should be run while no other job is running (whenever this can be possible).

This should work fine :-)

Best regards,

Ana

On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:01 PM, dave <bacula-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:

Hi There,

I am switching from bacula tape to disk based backup. I'm as good as finished and testing the system now.

In this phase i recognized that it would be helpful if I could purge and truncate volumes with no jobs on it.

So far I was not able to find a way to list volumes with 0 jobs on it and then purge and truncate them with some script. I tried "select VolumeName,VolJobs from Media;" but even after I have purged the jobs from a client it still shows the same amount of jobs. if it would show 0 Jobs that would be easy to script .... . or do I mix s'thing up ?

I think it is a bit cumbersome to purge and truncate volumes. maybe there is an easy way out there ?

Thanks for helping me out.
--> David

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