Alex F wrote: > Item 1. Delete volume on purge. > Origin: Alex F, alexxzell at yahoo dot com > Date: 16 February 2009 > > What: A feature that would permit Bacula to delete a volume from the > hard disk after it has been purged. > > Why: Useful for users backing up to hard disks. I for instance, am doing > this, and have to manually list volumes, seek and delete them, and > afterwards delete them from the mysql database. Woulld be acceptable if > I had to do it for 1 client...but I have many servers being backed up so > this is time-consuming. Maybe a new status could be defined when listing > jobs, something like "Deleted". > I know Bacula treats backups like if it were tape jobs, but I believe > that this approach is a little outdated, and some help should be pointed > towards the users who use Servers for the purpose of backing up.
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