Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-15 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
ing. Cheers, Uwe > > -Original Message- > From: Humphrey Bryant [mailto:hbry...@fogadaley.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:59 PM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes. > > Nice write up! > Thn

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-14 Thread John Drescher
> I've been using Bacula for only a few weeks, so I haven't gotten to the point > where my first backup job is older than my retension time (30 days). I hope you set limits on the volume usage. Remember that the retention period does not even begin until a volume is marked Full or Used. Without l

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-14 Thread Stephen Pierce
ycling of disk-storage media? Steve -Original Message- From: Humphrey Bryant [mailto:hbry...@fogadaley.com] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 12:59 PM To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes. Nice write up! Thnx mch.. On 03/13/2013 10:48 P

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-14 Thread Humphrey Bryant
Nice write up! Thnx mch.. On 03/13/2013 10:48 PM, Dan Langille wrote: I just did something similar recently. Hope this helps: http://dan.langille.org/2013/03/07/deleting-old-bacula-volumes/ <>-- Everyone hates slo

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-13 Thread Dan Langille
On Mar 11, 2013, at 5:33 AM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I run bacula using disk based volume files. I am shortly running out of space > of > my backup device. Apparently there are lots of files which are no longer > needed. > What is the mechanism of removing such volumes. There are commands like

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-11 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, 2013/3/11 Bill Arlofski > On 03/10/13 16:33, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I run bacula using disk based volume files. I am shortly running out of > space of > > my backup device. Apparently there are lots of files which are no longer > needed. > > What is the mechanism of removing such volume

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-11 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 11.03.2013 01:13, schrieb Bill Arlofski: > or in a script to remove several: > > for vol in "list of volumes"; do > echo "delete volume=$vol yes" | bconsole > done May I suggest a slight optimization? for vol in "list of volumes"; do echo "delete volume=$vol yes" done | bconsole avoids s

Re: [Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-10 Thread Bill Arlofski
On 03/10/13 16:33, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > I run bacula using disk based volume files. I am shortly running out of space > of > my backup device. Apparently there are lots of files which are no longer > needed. > What is the mechanism of removing such volumes. There are commands like > delete,

[Bacula-users] How to remove disk volumes.

2013-03-10 Thread Erik P. Olsen
I run bacula using disk based volume files. I am shortly running out of space of my backup device. Apparently there are lots of files which are no longer needed. What is the mechanism of removing such volumes. There are commands like delete, purge and prune and they all remove something but de