Delete Purged Volumes Bareos/Bacula

Script for Delete Purged Volumes from Bareos/Bacula Catalog and free disk space
It removing volumes from catalog that have been marked 'Purged', and delete backup vols from disk
Deletion rules:

• Don't delete full backup if:
  • we have less than 4 fulls
  • we have any of incremental/diff backup dependent on this full
• Don't delete diff backup if:
  • we have less than 3 diffs
  • we have any of incremental backup dependent on this diff
• Don't delete incremental backup if:
  • we have any of incremental backup dependent on this incremental

Bareos prerequisite config

• Make sure that Recycle = No is set in bacula configs for all volumes
  • if you have any vols with Recycle = yes script tell you about it
• Script now support setup with one device with same relative archive path

Install

sudo crontab -e -u bareos
3 5 * * * /path/to/delete_purged_volumes_bareos.py
Run (at 5:03) any time before/after all backup done

Config

Change this vars in top of script

dry_run
my_catalog_name
my_sd_device_name
sd_conf, storages_conf, dir_conf