You can speed it up a little I use a script that uses the truncate command.
It’s imperfect but I call this as part of a migrate job that moves from disk
volumes to tape volumes (there are bugs related to that but that’s another
issue).
#!/bin/bash
#POOL=AI-Incremental
#POOL=AI-Consolidated
POOL=$1
for x in `echo "list volumes pool=${POOL}" | bconsole | grep -v "list volumes"
| grep $POOL | awk -F\| '{print $3}'`
do
echo "prune volume=$x yes"
done | bconsole
# actaully free up disk space
echo "truncate volstatus=Purged pool=$POOL yes" \
| bconsole
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> On Nov 17, 2023, at 5:01 AM, Miguel Santos <manj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> They are not going to be free up until BAREOS requires to write them again,
> this is by design. BAREOS will only delete data when it is needed.
>
> If your volumes are in Full or Used state and the expiration has been
> reached, then BAREOS may use the volume and recycle it.
>
> Alternatively, if you want to have a bit more control take a look at this
> project, maybe there are some scripts that may be useful to what you are
> trying to accomplish: https://github.com/eayin2/bacula_scripts
>
> On Thursday, November 16, 2023 at 9:50:09 PM UTC+1 Steve O'Brien wrote:
> I have looked at several discussions and the manual about why my disk is
> almost full with volumes that are in the recycle state, however I still do
> not know how to free up this disk space?
> TIA,
> Steve
>
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