Hi Joe,
Nice to hear that! I prefer using Purge/Truncate/Recycle than deleting
volumes. You´re welcome.
Best regards,
Ana
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Polcari, Joe (Contractor) <
joe_polc...@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
>
> Ana,
>
> I guess that accomplishes the same thing as what I did yesterday.
>
> Before you answered me with the correct method, I used bat to set the
> retention time to 0 days for all the volumes containing only the cancelled
> job, after marking them purged (too late for changing the Pool option as
> you suggested to have an effect).
>
> As I suspected, these volumes are being re-used immediately.
>
> I also made the change you suggested so that any future jobs marked purged
> should release the disk space as soon as they are purged.
>
> Truncating will still allow the truncated files to remain until the Volume
> Retention times out, but at least they are not taking up space.
>
> Thank you very much for your responses.
>
>
>
> *From:* Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:49 AM
> *To:* Polcari, Joe (Contractor)
> *Cc:* bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Bacula-users] Purge question
>
>
>
> 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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