On 1/26/2011 8:14 PM, Randy Katz wrote: > On 1/26/2011 5:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >> On 1/26/2011 7:55 PM, Randy Katz wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I did a delete volume=volumenate and it warns me it will delete the >>> volume and all associated jobs and I confirmed. >>> I see it did indeed delete all jobs associated with the volume, however, >>> it did not remove >>> the actual volume from the disk. Is this normal behavior? Please >>> comment, thanks. >> >> Yes. >> >> BTW, this is quite clearly the expected behaviour. The documentation: >> >> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#delete >> >> >> delete [volume=vol-name pool=pool-name job jobid=id] >> The delete command is used to delete a Volume, Pool or Job record from >> the Catalog as well as all associated catalog Volume records that were >> created. This command operates only on the Catalog database and has no >> effect on the actual data written to a Volume. >> >> > Oh, sorry, yeah I remember seeing that before. So here is my issue: > > 1. There was a good volume with a Full Backup and then 2 or 3 > incrementals after that. > 2. The next incremental said it could not find a good Full Backup so it > made another Full.
Do you have this [error] message? NOTE: Perhaps you altered the FileSet.... this will generate a Full backup. > 3. I checked the next Incremental and it did see the last Full Backup. message? > So I assume *something* happened to the Full Backup, not sure what that > could be at this point but now I am > using double the disk space (this is a disk backup) so I wanted to > release that space as the space will remain used > until Max Full Interval is reached. I read somewhere in the list archive > that you must manually remove the volume > on disk (assuming one Volume per Backup) if you want to free up the space. > > So I want to make sure that the Volume *should* get physically deleted > when the Max Full Interval is reached, is > that so? This assuming one volume per backup, AutoPrune and Recycle are > yes. Bacula *never* deletes Volumes. -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer-- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE (a $49 USD value)! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! Download using promo code Free_Logger_4_Dev2Dev. Offer expires February 28th, so secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsight-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
