On 1/26/2011 5:17 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > On 1/26/2011 8:14 PM, Randy Katz wrote: >> On 1/26/2011 5:07 PM, Dan Langille wrote: >>> On 1/26/2011 7:55 PM, Randy Katz wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I did a delete volume=volumenate and it warns me it will delete the >>>> volume and all associated jobs and I confirmed. >>>> I see it did indeed delete all jobs associated with the volume, >>>> however, >>>> it did not remove >>>> the actual volume from the disk. Is this normal behavior? Please >>>> comment, thanks. >>> >>> Yes. >>> >>> BTW, this is quite clearly the expected behaviour. The documentation: >>> >>> http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/console/console/Bacula_Console.html#delete >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> delete [volume=vol-name pool=pool-name job jobid=id] >>> The delete command is used to delete a Volume, Pool or Job record from >>> the Catalog as well as all associated catalog Volume records that were >>> created. This command operates only on the Catalog database and has no >>> effect on the actual data written to a Volume. >>> >>> >> Oh, sorry, yeah I remember seeing that before. So here is my issue: >> >> 1. There was a good volume with a Full Backup and then 2 or 3 >> incrementals after that. >> 2. The next incremental said it could not find a good Full Backup so it >> made another Full. > > Do you have this [error] message? > > NOTE: Perhaps you altered the FileSet.... this will generate a Full > backup. > >> 3. I checked the next Incremental and it did see the last Full Backup. > > message? > >> So I assume *something* happened to the Full Backup, not sure what that >> could be at this point but now I am >> using double the disk space (this is a disk backup) so I wanted to >> release that space as the space will remain used >> until Max Full Interval is reached. I read somewhere in the list archive >> that you must manually remove the volume >> on disk (assuming one Volume per Backup) if you want to free up the >> space. >> >> So I want to make sure that the Volume *should* get physically deleted >> when the Max Full Interval is reached, is >> that so? This assuming one volume per backup, AutoPrune and Recycle are >> yes. > > Bacula *never* deletes Volumes. > ok, I will assume I changed the File Set and that is why it made a Full Backup. Does Bacula recycle the disk space on expired volumes? Or do they just sit there?
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