You can use the "delete volume" command in bconsole to remove a volume from the catalog. After that, you can safely rm it from the filesystem.
__Martin >>>>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:08:41 +0100, Justin Case said: > > Dear all, > > again another newbie question: > > I need to use a different disk drive for Bacula and I would like to start > over in the sense of deleting all volume files in a clean way, i.e. not > corrupting the catalog. The goal is to free up the space occupied by all > Bacula volumes. > > I know that I could migrate all volumes, but that takes more time than > starting over. Losing all backups of the past few days after setting up > Bacula is OK for me. > > I checked the manual what else I could do and it seems that one way would be > to set each volume manually to purged, but that would not delete the volume > but it would just be recycled/re-used. That would basically not help me to > free the space on the disk currently used by Bacula. Also it would be a > manual effort as I already have >150 volumes. > > All the best, > JC > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
