Freeing up Diskspace used by Volumes with Recycle Status

[Steve O'Brien]

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

[Miguel Santos]

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

[Brock Palen]

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


Brock Palen
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