On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 12:50 -0400, David Clymer wrote: > If I've copied a volume from deviceA to deviceB (volume1), and now want > to copy newer data from deviceA, how do I purge or overwrite the data on > deviceB, volume1? > > Before using bcopy I had to create & label volume1 (to avoid getting > nasty errors when writing, or later, reading the volume), so the bacula > director knows about the volume. However, after I bcopy data to it, > bacula director still thinks that the volume is empty. This would not be > a problem, except that I know of no way to purge or recycle a volume > except through the director.
And the problem with not being able to purge the volume is, of course, that subsequent bcopies are just tacked on to the end of the volume until I run out of disk space. -davidc -- Can you think of another word for "synonym"? ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tell us your software development plans! Take this survey and enter to win a one-year sub to SourceForge.net Plus IDC's 2005 look-ahead and a copy of this survey Click here to start! http://www.idcswdc.com/cgi-bin/survey?id=105hix _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
