Remember that by while you think about disk files, in many environments
backup storage resides on tapes so volumes are physical media which
cannot be "deleted" - if you purge jobs from the database you simply
mark the volume as empty and it can be overwritten with subsequent jobs.
Having said that - bareos has some additional concepts around media
taking into account the fact that they might actually be files in the
directory (like automatic creation of volumes - something that is
impossible with tapes since you can't magic a physical tape out of thin
air).
Whay you might look into is
https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_ActionOnPurge
But depending on your particular configuration some options might or
might not apply.
MK
On 9.11.2023 09:58, Miguel Santos wrote:
This is normal behavior, if configured correctly (Maximum Volume Size,
N. Volumes) the volumes will be recycled and the data consumption will
not pass your limits once you reach your settings.
The retention periods are applied only for catalog records, this means
that even if a volume is Purged or its retention period has reached,
BAREOS will not do anything to the volume but it may reuse that volume
and write new data to it. There is a valid reason for this in larger
systems where you don't have immediate access to tapes.
However, for file-based backups probably those settings are not
configured and it will create volumes indefinitely. Since this is not
an easy answer depending on the strategy you want to follow, I would
suggest to look at:
https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/VolumeManagement.html
On Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 9:42:11 AM UTC+1 Yariv Hazan wrote:
Hi,
When using bconsole to delete jobs disk space doe not seem to be free.
How do I delete the job and have the data removed form disk?
Thanks,
Yariv
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