forgot to mention I am running bacula 5.0 on rhel 6.3...
>________________________________
> From: Antony Mayi <antonym...@yahoo.com>
>To: "bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net" <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013, 19:24
>Subject: [Bacula-users] file storage volume labelling with time stamps
>
>
>Hi,
>
>
>is there a way to get bacula to create file based volumes with timestamps in
>names and then instead of recycling them (as that would just use a volume with
>irrelevant timestamp on it) just dropping them and creating new one with
>actual timestamp?
>
>
>I was trying following approach:
>
>
>Pool {
> Name = "FullBackups"
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = no
> AutoPrune = yes
> Action On Purge = Truncate
> Volume Retention = 3 months
> Volume Use Duration = 1 month
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 4700000000
>}
>
>
>Pool {
> Name = "DiffBackups"
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = no
> AutoPrune = yes
> Action On Purge = Truncate
> Volume Retention = 1 month
> Volume Use Duration = 1 week
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 4700000000
>}
>
>
>Pool {
> Name = "IncrBackups"
> Pool Type = Backup
> Recycle = no
> AutoPrune = yes
> Action On Purge = Truncate
> Volume Retention = 1 week
> Volume Use Duration = 1 day
> Maximum Volume Bytes = 4700000000
>}
>
>
>
>
>and then using python hook to create the timestamp labels I like:
>
>
>class JobEvents(object):
>...
> def NewVolume(self, job):
> stamp = {
>
>"FullBackups": "%s-full" % time.strftime("%y%m000"),
>"DiffBackups": "%s-diff" % time.strftime("%y%m%W0"),
>"IncrBackups": "%s-incr" % time.strftime("%y%m%W%w")
> }
> label = None
> volid = 0
> while not label or job.DoesVolumeExist(label):
>label = "%s-%s.vol%02d" % (job.Storage, stamp[job.Pool], volid)
>volid += 1
> job.VolumeName = label
>
> return 1
>
>
>so I am then getting labels like (the meaning of the timestamp is
><year><month><weekofyear><dayofweek>):
>Offsite-1301034-incr.vol07
>
>Offsite-1301000-full.vol02
>
>Offsite-1302060-diff.vol00
>
>
>I have no luck getting rid of the old volumes. the "Action On Purge =
>Truncate" doesn't seem to have any effect. When I do "list volumes" I can see
>the old volumes have status "Purged" but the volume is not truncated. Also it
>still remains in the catalog so in that case the catalog would be full of
>purged volumes soon.
>
>
>Does anyone has a solution for this usecase? I understand bacula is primarily
>designed for tapes and in such case my approach of dropping instead of
>recycling is not realistic but for file based volumes this would be very
>convenient.
>
>
>thanks for any ideas,
>Antony.
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