If you guys would like, I can attach the patch we apply to make migrations
purge the jobs themselves as well and thus cause volumes to properly
autoprune.
We also run a perl script to prune/purge any expired volumes every few
hours.
-Blake
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 05:58, Graham Keeling <gra...@equiinet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:32:44AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
> > Hi Graham,
> > I think this is a key feature, and am surprised it's not easily
> > possible. The user should have the choice. I saw the blog entries
> > you refer to, and that bug appears to have been fixed, but I don't see
> > what use it is in the current system. If it's not possible to get
> > bacula to purge a volume until it has absolutely no option, (which it
> > then truncates and relabels anyway) then under what circumstances is
> > the actiononpurge=trucate feature useful?
> >
> > Hence I am wondering if I am misunderstanding how Bacula works in
> > regard to purging volumes.
> >
> > There must have been a good reason to implement this new feature, and
> > I think it's what I need, but I can't see how to use it properly.
> >
> > Dermot.
>
> I agree, and I am sorry because I can't offer you any more help.
> I was just stating how things appear to stand at the moment.
>
> > On 17 November 2010 11:03, Graham Keeling <gra...@equiinet.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:48:36AM +0000, Dermot Beirne wrote:
> > >> Hi Phil,
> > >>
> > >> Here is the pool definitions I'm using.
> > >>
> > >> Is there some way I can get the entire "disk" pool volumes purged when
> > >> they expire, so they are all truncated and all that space is released.
> > >
> > > I don't think that you're going to have much luck with this.
> > > If you do, I would be interested in how you did it.
> > >
> > > When the ActionOnPurge feature originally came along, I found a
> dangerous
> > > bug in it. The bacula people said that they would try to fix it in the
> > > next version.
> > > But as far as I understand it, the fix is that you shouldn't try to run
> it
> > > automatically.
> > >
> > >
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/02/01/new-actiononpurge-feature/
> > >
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/bacula/2010/01/28/action-on-purge-feature-broken-in-5-0-0/
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
>
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