Bacula is not intended to delete anything. The way you have a new volume for a new day with a new uniq date-based name is not a good way for bacula. You shuld have the volumes with generic names and recycle them instead of removing them (you do not destroy the tapes after one use either). However you always can have a cron script or bacula admin job, which finds the old volumes and removes them. I have similar script for deleting volumes older then 60 days, usefull for automatic tide up when you often add and remove clients.
example: STORAGE_PATH=/var/lib/bacula/backup /usr/bin/find $STORAGE_PATH/storedevice* -type f -ctime +60 -regex '.*-all-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$' -delete Marek Phil Stracchino napsal(a): > I have a disk-based backup setup that uses dated volumes which are used > for a 23-hour period then marked 'used', so that I can be certain a > particular day's backups are contained in a single file. They are of > course purged after their retention time expires, at which time they are > moved to the Scratch pool. > > What I would LIKE to happen next is to have these purged volumes > automatically deleted both from the catalog AND from disk. Has anyone > else already implemented a solution to this problem? I'd sooner not > reinvent the wheel if there's a perfectly good existing solution out there. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
