On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:29:15AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Hello, > > Bacula is not "truncating" your volumes. It is just noticing that they have > no > more files on them that are in the retention period you specified or set for > the volumes. It is then pruning certain volumes, which means that the file > entries for files stored on those volumes will be removed. It is also marking > the volumes as purged -- i.e. they no longer have any files that are within > the > retention period. > > The volumes may then be reused (depending on variables you have set). The > only > time the volume is actually truncated is if you explicitly do it, or if the > volume is purged, and Bacula needs a new volume. In this second case, it will > automatically truncate and reuse the volume. > > Everything is determined by the retention periods you have set. The manual > has > a quite a lot of information about this process and much of it is very > detailed. > > Best regards, > > Kern
Except that I'm explicitly calling trunccate in my BackupCatalog job: Console = "prune expired volume yes" Console = "truncate allpools" And in 7.x it would truncate newly pruned volumes and not re-truncate the others. -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 214-642-9640 E-Mail: l...@lerctr.org US Mail: 5708 Sabbia Drive, Round Rock, TX 78665-2106
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