On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Flak Magnet wrote: > > If you purge the volumes completely then they won't exist as volumes anymore > and you'll have to relabel them in bacula again. It'll be aggravating as > you'll have to "erase" the label from them before you can re-label them. > > You'd be better off purging the jobs from the volumes: > > "purge jobs volname=<volumename>" > > Then follow-up with making sure that the volume is recycleable. > > --
hmm .... it seems to have just marked them as purged and removed the jobs associated with it: Pool: Full +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 4 | 002045L4 | Purged | 1 | 334,484,075,520 | 336 | 10,368,000 | 1 | 5 | 1 | LTO4 | 2007-12-07 01:20:05 | | 5 | 002044L4 | Full | 1 | 1,058,844,423,168 | 1,059 | 10,368,000 | 1 | 6 | 1 | LTO4 | 2007-12-10 21:08:17 | | 6 | 002043L4 | Full | 1 | 905,614,617,600 | 906 | 10,368,000 | 1 | 7 | 1 | LTO4 | 2007-12-11 07:46:43 | | 7 | 002042L4 | Append | 1 | 196,731,408,384 | 197 | 10,368,000 | 1 | 8 | 1 | LTO4 | 2007-12-11 09:39:43 | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-------------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ Pool: Scratch +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | mediaid | volumename | volstatus | enabled | volbytes | volfiles | volretention | recycle | slot | inchanger | mediatype | lastwritten | +---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+--------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------+ | 3 | 002046L4 | Purged | 1 | 963,453,754,368 | 964 | 10,368,000 | 1 | 4 | 1 | LTO4 | 2007-12-06 21:31:20 | i assume that the purged volumes are available for reuse at this point? -- michael ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
