Hi, 09.02.2008 17:19, Hannes Gruber wrote: > Juche,
ok, Grüßle ;-) > I am reading through bacula documentation at the moment. And I have some > doubst about what I understood, I culd test ist out, which would take > quite some time, or I can ask you, maybe someone knows the answer > without testing. > > Q1: > As far as I understood, Bacula starts to Prune Volumes only if there is > no volume in the Pool that is still Appendable. Right. Although Purged and Recycled volumes can also be used. > If a tape had a Status of full, and some jobs JobRetention on that tape > is expired, the Job will be deleted from the CatalogDB. Does this also > mean, that the tape will renter status Append? No. > If so, the space freed by the expired job will be filled by one of the > next backups, doesn't that leed to heavily fragmented Backups? No. Bacula handles all volumes like tapes. Tapes are only appended to, or they are started writing to from the start. On tape, there is no such thing as fragmentation or unused space before the final end-of-tape mark. > Q2: > I read, that after I have deleted all FileData from the CatalogDB, I can > still restore a Job If I still have the JobData in the CatalogDB. I can > only restore all files at once. > Will this still restore the User information and Access rights of each file? Yes. This data is also stored on tape. > Q3: > I am just curious, what is the status of a volume after Recycle? Usually it will be in state "Append" quite soon. > I am sure there will be more Questions, the functionality of Bacula is > really complex, but very powerful. I like it. So do most of us here... what a coincidence ;-) Arno > Hannes > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
