On 4/11/23 16:35, Chris Wilkinson wrote:
I have some disk volumes that are not associated with any job but have not yet reached their expiry time so they are not being pruned. These were created by a job run that was deleted. It seems deleting a job run doesn't purge the associated volumes.I would like to delete these now obsolete volumes from disk and recover the space used. I thought the prune command would do this but it doesn't find the obsolete volumes, presumably because they haven't reached their expiry time. I thought perhaps the bls -j <pathtovolume> utility might help but it is extremely slow and produces much unwanted output that is difficult to parse out. How could I list these obsolete volumes so I could script a delete from catalog and rm the volume files? Thanks Chris Wilkinson
Hello Chris,
Bacula does its best to not delete tings, especially volumes/backup data. The
rare case being the `ActionOnPurge = truncate`
f
eature.
The answer in your case is simple:
In bconsole:
* delete yes volume=xxxx
Then in a shell:
# rm -f /path/to/filevolume
This can be done with a simple script too (standard warnings apply):
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#!/bin/bash
bcbin=/path/to/bconsole
bccfg=/path/to/bconsole.conf
path2vols=/path/to/file/vols
For vol in vol_1 vol_2 vol_3; do
echo "delete yes volume="${vol}" | "${bcbin}" -c "${bccfg}"
rm -f "$path2vols}"/"${vol}
done
----8<----
To be sure there are no jobs associated with a volume, I would recommend to use
the bconsole `query` command, then choose
option `14: List Jobs stored for a given Volume name`, and then do the
deletions after you are sure all is OK.
Hope this helps,
Bill
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