Ken, On Wed 03 December 2008 21:33, Ken Barclay wrote: > I have a serious problem looming. Next week I will run out of tapes, and > new tapes won't arrive until next month. What I plan to do is to make a > Full volume in each Pool useable again, but I'm not really sure what is > the best method. Obviously, I'm going to lose the existing data from the > Full volume, but that will better than doing no backups for a month. > > I need some advice as to whether I should: > > prune volume
Pruning a volumn, whether automatic or manual, will delete/purge from the catalog job & file records which are beyond their retention periods. If all job & file records for the volume are deleted/purged from the catalog, then the status of the volume will be changed to Purged. > purge volume, or Purge will delete/purge all job & file records from the catalog irregardless of their retention periods. The volume status will be changed to Purged. > update volume Volume Status Obviously, you could manually change the status of a volume to Purged without the volume having first been prunned or manually purged. I'm not sure what will happen but I'm afraid that your catalog would be left in an inconsistant state,i.e., job & file records would still be in the catalog even though they no longer are physically on the volume. (I suspect that you would have to run dbcheck to repair the inconsistancy.) > > Any advice would be appreciated. If I understand your situation correctly, then manually purging a volume would be the best course of action. > > Ken Barclay HTH cmr -- Debian 'Etch' - Registered Linux User #241964 -------- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
