Kern Sibbald wrote: Hi Kern,
> On Monday 14 November 2005 17:31, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >> Quoting Ralf Folkerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> [snip] >> >> > However, the Volumes themself are never being removed from the >> > Filesystem with this config. AutoPrune nicely removes the Jobs and >> > Volumes from the Database but not the Volume-File itself. >> >> This is how Bacula works, it will never delete a Volume. Remember >> it's primarily about backup to tape. You don't delete tapes. You >> overwrite them. Somewhere on the list on in the documentation Kern >> says that Bacula will never delete volumes. > > I think I wasn't very clear in the above statement. What I meant was that > as currently programmed Bacula will never delete Volumes (or disk files). > > I believe that adding some sort of disk Volume management in the future is > possible, and such a functionality may be able to delete volumes. > However, doing something like that would require a lot of thought ... > > [...] thank you very much for this clarification! Well, I'd really appreciate some sort of Volume Management for BtD - however, I can very well live with deleting the Files on my own (well, have a Shell-Skript for that). Nevertheless, it would of course be nice to have automatic Volume Management ;-) Thanks! Cheers, _ralf_ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
