On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:07 PM, LDC - Gustavo El Khoury <gust...@ldc.usb.ve> wrote: > Good evening everyone! > > First of all, thanks for the great support you've provided to all of the > community! Believe me I've learned and helped so much thanks to this mail > list. > Now, to the topic. I'm using bacula to provide backup service to one of my > University's departments. We are using the IBM TS3100 as a tape drive for the > backup storage. Lately our mail partition has grown quite a bit; as you know > mail partitions contain a huge amount of small files, so I've started to have > errors with the batch table and the /tmp partition running out of space. That > issue is solved now, however a couple of full backups have ended in fatal > error! Is there any way of clearing these files from the catalog, so the > space they occupied on the tape(s) may be used for other jobs? I've run a > simple script that takes the jobId of these jobs and then runs > > purge files jobid=nnnn > delete job jobid=nnnn > > But that doesn't seem to increase the free space on tapes. Is there anything > else to do? Note that purging a volume is not helpful, as some backups have > been sliced across more than one tape. > > P.D.: I'm not interested in deleting the backup files. I just want to let > bacula know that these files are not useful, and that their space may be > overwritten
Tapes can not be partially erased it is an all or nothing. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
