Fundamentals: Purging

Once all the database records that concern a particular Volume have been pruned, respecting the retention periods, the Volume is said to be purged (i.e. has no more catalog entries).

It is, however, possible to submit commands to Bacula to purge specific information, which will not respect configured retention periods. Naturally, this is something that should only be done with the greatest care.

Bacula will try to keep your data safe as long as possible, thus purging a Volume will not automatically reclaim the used space. If you want to reuse space, you must configure Bacula accordingly.

See the Console purge command for more details on this subject.

See also

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