On Sunday 25 March 2007 22:53, Eric Bollengier wrote: > Hi, > > > 1. Previous when Bacula needed a new Volume, it would prune *all* volumes > > in the current pool. Now it prunes only one at a time, until it finds > > one that has been Purged. This means that less pruning will be done, and > > database records will tend to remain longer (possibly much longer). > > Although individual volumes can be prunned by command, there is no command > > to prune a whole pool. > > > > Question: does anyone feel there is a need for a new command that will > > pemit manually pruning a whole pool? An appropriate place > > *may* be dbcheck. > > I think this is a good idea to keep the old feature.
I don't know what you mean by the "old feature" -- do you mean to prune all volumes when the SD needs a new volume? This is the way that it previously worked, and what I would call the old feature. The advantage of the old way is that it prunes Volumes that might otherwise not be pruned. The disadvantage is that it does more work than is really necessary to find one new Volume for the SD. > With RecyclePool feature, it's more simple to manage media. I'm not sure what you mean by RecyclePool feature. I was asking if people want a new command to "prune" a whole pool. Recycling comes later when the volume is actually needed. If that is what you mean, then yes, I completely agree a "prune pool=xxx" is much easier for the user to manage pruning as he/she wishes. With the new code that prunes only the minimum number of volumes to make the SD happy, I think it is absolutely necessary to have a "prune pool=xxx" command, and it is something that should be easy to execute (a new feature is required for this), so that regular pruning can be "forced" according to the retention period defined, if that is desired. In a *very* big shop, I think such pruning will be required. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
