On 07/06/11, John Drescher (dresche...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange > <r...@campbell-lange.net> wrote:
> > Does deleting the job remove the data (in this case the data for job > > 329) off the tape? That is what I need to do. > > > No, it does not delete anything off of the tape. This is not a thing > that can be done reliably with tape drives especially with drives > variable compression however even without compression on tape drives > do not always use the exact same amount of tape for the exact same > amount of bytes. That is really interesting -- I had no idea it was that hard as (presumably) Bacula knows how to position to a specific block location in order to retrieve a file. Thanks for the info. -- Rory Campbell-Lange r...@campbell-lange.net Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
