If what you're saying is correct (which seems the case, sadly) let's propose a weird, bit degenerated but still useful case: retention period of one month, and a series of failed backups, which fail after writing a lot of data into tapes... What will happen if the tapes get filled with incomplete backup files before one month, and there's no space for a new job? BTW, is there a way to delete all files associated with a job from the catalog? Will it do any difference? (I think it was purge files jobid=nnn but not sure)
LDC - Gustavo El Khoury On 12/04/2013, at 09:55 p.m., John Drescher <dresche...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
