Basicly what I see here is that you really want a migration, not a copy job.
This coupled with the patch from
http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-de...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg04724.htmlshould
do what you want if you set the new option in the migration job (from
the patch, believe it is "Migrate Purge Jobs = yes", as I said, it's been a
while).
You may also have to use a script to run the purge command on empty /
expired volumes to get the truncate to act like you want before the volumes
are reused, but I have a skeleton for that as well if needed.
-Blake
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 16:07, Dermot Beirne <dermot.bei...@dpd.ie> wrote:
> Hi Blake,
> That sounds great, exactly what I've been looking for by the sound of it.
> If you can provide this and some details of how to get it working, I
> for one would be very interested and grateful.
>
> Incidently, how would using such a patch affect upgrading Bacula in
> future, etc. I presume you are using it in a production environment
> and find it stable.
>
> Does this patch replace the actiononpurge feature entirely?
>
> I'd suggest something like this should be considered for the next
> version of Bacula.
>
> Dermot.
>
>
>
>
> On 17 November 2010 18:42, Blake Dunlap <iki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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