>>>>> On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:32:54 +0300, Rich  said:
> 
> can bacula be configured to automatically remove disk based volumes, 
> once the volume contains no data (after pruning db records) ?

No, but it is feature request item 7.

OTOH, it can't be configured to burn your old tapes either :-)


> i am keeping single volume per job, but date-based removal outside of 
> bacula is cumbersome - bacula is the only one who has exact information 
> on what has to be kept.
> 
> for example, if i am taking a full backup once a month, this leaves some 
> 30 or so day window when i can't safely remove volume files, as 
> incremental ones without previous full aren't very useful.

The usual way to configure Bacula it is to make it recycle (reuse) the
existing volumes, but that is tricky if you must have control over exactly
which volume is used for each job.

__Martin

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