Hi Joe,
I would like to add some information here. Instead of deleting these
volumes, if you have your pool configured for recycling, you can have your
pools configured with the "Action On Purge = truncate" option. This way,
when you purge a volume, Bacula will truncate it and avoid wasting of disk
space.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Ana
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Ana Emília M. Arruda <
emiliaarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe,
>
> If you delete these volumes from Catalog, yes, this will work. But if you
> just purge or prune your volumes, they will still exist in your Catalog. So
> for deleting the purged volumes the script should check if the VolStatus
> equals Purged.
>
> Regards,
> Ana
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Polcari, Joe (Contractor) <
> joe_polc...@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
>>
>> So it is possible to write a script that will search the database,
>> using the volume names (filenames) and if it is not found, I can delete the
>> volume.
>>
>> The reason I’m asking is I had a very large backup job get cancelled
>> because it ran overtime. I’ve since extended the run rime but I still have
>> the cancelled job with a couple of hundred volumes and I would like to
>> reclaim the diskspace.
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 16, 2014 12:24 PM
>> *To:* Polcari, Joe (Contractor)
>> *Cc:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Purge question
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Joe,
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Polcari, Joe (Contractor) <
>> joe_polc...@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just to clarify for myself,
>> As I understand it, if I purge a job, that means it will remove all
>> reference to the job and the files in the job from the database and mark
>> all the volumes used for that job as purged.
>> If that is correct then:
>> 1. If I'm using disk based backups, the files will still be
>> there. Correct?
>>
>>
>>
>> Correct. Your volumes are not marked purged and all your data will still
>> be there.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. When the job runs again, it will re-use those
>> volumes/filenames, overwriting them. Correct?
>>
>>
>>
>> When the job runs again, the recycling algorithm will be performed by
>> Bacula. If you have recycling correctly configured Bacula will re-use
>> volumes. Doing purge in jobs or files do not purge your volumes. So this
>> will not let your volumes available for recycling. You need to purge
>> volumes and configure them for recycling in your confs.
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. Will it do that before creating new files?
>>
>>
>>
>> Bacula will just recycle a volume if it cannot create a new volume when
>> automatic label is configured. If you want Bacula recycles your volumes,
>> then you should limit the volumes in the pool. This way, when it is not
>> possible for Bacula create new volumes, then the volumes already in the
>> pool will be recycled.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 4. Is this also true of a job that was cancelled?
>>
>>
>>
>> When a job starts, Bacula reserves a volume and will begin writing to
>> the volume. For canceled jobs, you will need to purge or delete them. But
>> this will not delete or purge the volumes associated with it. Mainly
>> because the volume could have been used by other jobs before and there will
>> be data on it.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ana
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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