On Sunday 14 August 2005 04:04, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Kern,
> This question is probably your bailiwick. In the event of a failed job
> in bacula, is there any existing mechanism to tell Bacula to (logically)
> erase that job from the tape and treat that portion of the tape as
> unused? Logic says it should be basically a simple matter of resetting
> VolBytes and VolFiles to their values at the end of the previous
> successful Job. This would provide a sort of an "Undo" feature for
> failed Jobs.
No, and given the difficulties in dealing with tapes, this is probably not
something I am going to try. First, there should not be any failed jobs.
Second, I think this kind of problem will probably be best dealt with by
"merging" tapes -- i.e. a sort of data compaction by copying.
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Best regards,
Kern
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