On 01/14/2010 11:05 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Jon Schewe wrote:
>
>> On 1/12/10 5:40 PM, Timo Neuvonen wrote:
>>
>>>> So I'm backing data up to an external drive. I have maximum volume jobs
>>>> set to 1, to ensure that each job uses a different volume. I would also
>>>> like it such that volumes are not reused, so I assume I should set
>>>> recycle to no. Now the question is, when the retention period comes up,
>>>> will the volumes that are past the retention period be deleted? If they
>>>> are not, I'll run out of space on my external drive.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Bacula does not delete the volumes automatically. If recycling were
>>> allowed,
>>> the volumes would be re-used, but never actually deleted in that case
>>> either.
>>>
>>> If you need to delete the volumes, you have to do it manually, or using
>>> some
>>> sort of admin job or script. And before deleting the volume files, also
>>> delete the volumes from the catalog to prevent the catalog growing
>>> unnecessarily.
>>>
>>>
>> Has anyone written such a script to handle this?
>>
> I asked this same question recently. There isn't a standard one. I
> will be writing one shortly for my own needs.
>
>
Turns out it was really easy, I wrote one last night. It's below. You
just want to change the find part of the script to find the appropriate
volumes, then run this as a before or after job script. You will want to
check this by working with a test pool, as I did, just to be sure it's
right.
#!/bin/bash
for file in `find /mnt/mybook/bacula -name 'Test-*'`; do
volume=`basename ${file}`
echo "*** Deleting Vol ${volume} from bacula catalog"
/usr/sbin/bconsole <<EOF
delete volume="${volume}" yes
quit
EOF
echo "*** Deleteing ${file} from disk"
rm -f ${file}
done
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