On Monday 16 February 2009 14:08:59 Dan Langille wrote: > 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 that this approach is a little outdated, and some help should be pointed 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. > > This is what recycling is for.
I would second both Eric's remark and Dan's remark. If you recycle Volumes, in general, there is no need for deleting them. I suspect you haven't read the manual carefully as there is a whole chapter devoted to this -- there is no need to manually do anything in 99.9% of all cases. In some very special applications where the names of the volumes are critical and must be changed rather than using recycling, or when volumes are purged a long time before they are re-used (recycled), I can see the need for deleting volumes, but as Eric points out, that feature has already been requested. Regards, Kern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
