I'm doing backups to disk and have bareos setup to automatically label volumes as needed, I also have the ability to add disk space to the backup partition and I'm working to figure out the right size for my backups by watching how full the volume gets and then adding space when needed. However I'm finding that old volumes don't appear to be recycled despite having autoprune enabled and the purge action set to truncate. I read through https://docs.bareos.org/TasksAndConcepts/VolumeManagement.html and found this note:
A few points from Alan Brown to keep in mind: - If Maximum Volumes (Dir->Pool) <https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_MaximumVolumes> is not set, Bareos will prefer to demand new volumes over forcibly purging older volumes. - If volumes become free through pruning and the Volume retention period has expired, then they get marked as *Purged* and are immediately available for recycling - these will be used in preference to creating new volumes. This suggests to me the for my particular setup where I have not limited the number of volumes nor do I have a limited amount of disk space bareos will never prune volumes. Am I understanding this correctly? I believe that the solution for my situation is to execute the following command on a regular basis: prune volume all yes >From my reading this seems to be a safe operation as it will only mark volumes as purged once the appropriate retention periods have expired. My retention periods are set on the pools only. Am I correct that this is a safe operation to run regularly and won't end up losing data that is within my retention periods? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/4b606086-cdbe-4588-8404-40dcd79d24ffn%40googlegroups.com.
