To preserve your data as long as posible, Bacula will just "erase" the volume file content (and change the volume file size in filesystem and catalog) when it is reused for a backup. You will just notice the truncate action when you execute a job that will use this volume for writing.
After changing the recycle flag to yes and reloading the new configurations for the pool, you will also need to apply the changes to all the existing volumes: update volume -> All Volumes from Pool or All Volumes from all Pools. Best regards, Ana On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Doug Sampson <do...@dawnsign.com> wrote: > 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> 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] > *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2015 4:00 PM > *To:* Doug Sampson > *Cc:* 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> 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 > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > >
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