On 5/10/2011 12:36 AM, mulle78 wrote: > Hello @all, I've purged a volume and appended a new back up to the tape. Is > there a way to find out the free space on a tape to be shure that a reorg of > a tap has be done successfully?! > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by mulle...@gmx.de via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > If the volume was purged, then Bacula will write from the beginning. There is no way to know how much space is left on a tape (unless you have compression disabled--and then probably only approximately), however, you can see how much data Bacula believes is on the tape--if that is relatively consistent with how large your backup was, then you know that is the only thing on the tape. From bconsole, "list media" will display lots of information--look at the "VolBytes" field to see how much data is stored on the tape. Note that "VolFiles" are tape files--not your files, unless configured otherwise bacula will put a end-of-file mark on the tape every gigabyte (IIRC) and at the end of every backup that doesn't end on a gigabyte boundary for faster positioning during restore.
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