Le Lundi 26 Mars 2007 00:09, Kern Sibbald a écrit : > 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.
It is what I wanted to say, for me, "old feature" = "prune pool=xxx" and "prune allpool" > > 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. sorry for my english :) > 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
