Mingus Dew wrote: > I have read through the manual and understand that all the delete and > purge commands work against the catalog. However, I have sometimes > encountered a situation where a job to tape will fail (for whatever > reason). In these situations I usually have other backups that have > successfully completed and been written to the same tape. Given this, I > wouldn't want to purge the entire volume, but there is going to be data > on the tape from the failed job. > > Is it possible to delete only the data from the failed job from the tape > to clear room to rerun the job on the same media? Does this question > make sense?
No. Yes. Space in the middle of a Volume is not released or reused. It is an all-or-nothing strategy. Either a Volume is recycled, or it is not. :) -- Dan Langille BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference : http://www.bsdcan.org/ PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference: http://www.pgcon.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
