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When a volume is expired and then recycled, will old data automatically be removed from it? Because the volume is just as big. I have set VolumeRetention = 180 &nbsp;and Recycle = Yes for all pools. That is less then half of what was before, 365.
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When a volume is expired and then recycled, will old data automatically be removed from it? Because the volume is just as big. I have set VolumeRetention = 180  and Recycle = Yes for all pools. That is less then half of what was before, 365.

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I just deleted the volumes manually and let bacula create new ones with a full backup using my aletered config. Looks better for now.
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I just deleted the volumes manually and let bacula create new ones with a full backup using my aletered config. Looks better for now.

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I have been cleaning up and reconfiguring my Bacula setup so that the volumes will autoprune and recycle, but as of right now several volumes have grown enormous. I don't want to delete the whole volume, just the oldest jobs from the volume so that the file on disk will take less space. How can I do this?
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I have been cleaning up and reconfiguring my Bacula setup so that the volumes will autoprune and recycle, but as of right now several volumes have grown enormous. I don't want to delete the whole volume, just the oldest jobs from the volume so that the file on disk will take less space. How can I do this?

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