I changed the Recycle flag to YES in most of the pools (including the ‘aries’ pool) and reloaded. The truncate command didn’t work.
What else am I overlooking? ~Doug From: Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:30 PM To: Doug Sampson Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] "Truncate on Purge" not working Hello Doug, The truncate command or the "action on purge = truncate" directive both are used to "truncate" the volume file. This means that if Bacula can reuse the truncated volume, it starts writing in this volume from the begining of the volume file. This way, all the data in this volume is lost. So, Bacula needs the recycle flag to be set for truncating/reusing the volume. Best regards, Ana On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Doug Sampson <do...@dawnsign.com<mailto:do...@dawnsign.com>> wrote: I do not want to recycle these volumes as these contain date stamps. Or am I misunderstanding this? Are you saying that if I enable Recycling, these purged volumes would be truncated? ~Doug From: Ana Emília M. Arruda [mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com<mailto:emiliaarr...@gmail.com>] Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:00 PM To: Doug Sampson Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] "Truncate on Purge" not working Hello Doug, These are all the volumes you have in the pool aries? Is there any volume being recycled since you have started this configuration? You have this pool configured with "Recycle = no". Bacula will not recycle these volumes this way. Best regards, Ana On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Doug Sampson <do...@dawnsign.com<mailto:do...@dawnsign.com>> wrote: Hello- I am experiencing the exact same situation as Erik Olsen did when he posted to the list last week. I have yet to hear from him whether he has succeeded in truncating purged volumes automatically. I am still getting the message that there are no volumes to truncate when in fact there are volumes that have been purged from the MyCatalog catalog. I do not want to have to manually delete these purged volumes anymore so please do bear with me! Here's a part of my Jobs definition which is exactly the same for all other jobs definitions except for the file sets, storage, and pools: Job { Name = "aries" JobDefs = "DefaultJob" Type = Backup Level = Incremental Client = aries-fd FileSet = "Aries Set" Schedule = "ariesWeeklyCycle" Storage = FileStoragearies Write Bootstrap = "/var/db/bacula/aries.bsr" Pool = aries# Set up truncation of purged volumes RunScript { RunsWhen=After RunsOnClient=No Console = "truncate storage=FileStoragearies pool=aries" } } The pool definition: Pool { Name = aries Pool Type = Backup Recycle = no # Bacula can automatically recycle Volumes AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes Volume Retention = 2 months # one year # Accept Any Volume = yes # write on any volume in the pool Label Format = "Backup_aries-fd_${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}.${Minute:p/2/0/r}.${Second:p/2/0 /r}" Maximum Volume Jobs = 1 Action On Purge = Truncate } A sample of the "llist volumes pool=aries" command output: mediaid: 7,549 volumename: Backup_aries-fd_2015-03-28_00.05.00 slot: 0 poolid: 4 mediatype: File firstwritten: 2015-03-28 00:05:00 lastwritten: 2015-03-28 00:14:03 labeldate: 2015-03-28 00:05:00 voljobs: 1 volfiles: 0 volblocks: 46,216 volmounts: 1 volbytes: 2,981,449,657 volerrors: 0 volwrites: 46,217 volcapacitybytes: 0 volstatus: Purged enabled: 1 recycle: 0 volretention: 5,184,000 voluseduration: 0 maxvoljobs: 1 maxvolfiles: 0 maxvolbytes: 0 inchanger: 0 endfile: 0 endblock: 2,981,449,656 volparts: 0 labeltype: 0 storageid: 12 deviceid: 0 locationid: 0 recyclecount: 0 initialwrite: scratchpoolid: 0 recyclepoolid: 0 actiononpurge: 1 comment: As you can see this particular volume in the "aries" pool is marked purged and actiononpurge = 1. Running "truncate storage=FileStoragearies pool=aries" produces this: *truncate storage=FileStoragearies pool=aries No Volumes found to perform truncate action. * # ll /backup < ..snip..> 46742 -rw-r----- 1 bacula wheel 47712511 Mar 26 00:09 Backup_aries-fd_2015-03-26_00.05.01 36502 -rw-r----- 1 bacula wheel 37325200 Mar 27 00:09 Backup_aries-fd_2015-03-27_00.05.01 2912695 -rw-r----- 1 bacula wheel 2981449657 Mar 28 00:14 Backup_aries-fd_2015-03-28_00.05.00 112302 -rw-r----- 1 bacula wheel 114829083 Mar 31 00:09 Backup_aries-fd_2015-03-31_00.05.02 87207 -rw-r----- 1 bacula wheel 89145692 Apr 1 00:09 Backup_aries-fd_2015-04-01_00.05.00 < ..snip..> # Can you please tell me what I could be overlooking if at all??? Running Bacula 7.0.5 on FreeBSD 9.3. ~Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
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