On Friday 10 November 2006 03:10, Mantas Marčiulaitis wrote:
> I'm using disk as backup media. A the moment I only use one pool with label
> format set as follows: "Label Format =
> "Full-${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}-${Client}".
>
> Every night bacula creates a new file, however although volume retention is
> set to 2 days old files never get deleted. My question is, does volume
> retention period only applies to the database entries and not the files? Or
> is it possible to make bacula delete old files after some period of time?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mantas.Bacula can be configured to re-use disk files, but never to delete them. You must delete them, yourself, outside of Bacula. There are several ways to do this. One way is to write a shell script an run it as a run-before or run-after Bacula job script. Another is to set up a cron job. Another, of course, is just to do it manually from the command line. Cheers! cmr -- Debian 'Etch': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
