That's not really an option... The other day I purged the tape where the incomplete job was, with purge jobs volume, and I lost an incremental backup I had, that was stored in that tape. Your suggestion will only work if the given tape would ONLY contain the incomplete backup, which is hardly the case.
BTW i have never run out of space (25 LTO3 400GB tapes vs 2.7 TB SAN that's not even full :) ) but I'm just trying to avoid wasting space LDC - Gustavo El Khoury On 13/04/2013, at 11:51 a.m., Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net> wrote: > On 04/12/13 22:44, LDC - Gustavo El Khoury wrote: >> 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) > > Is it feasible for you to purge the applicable tapes, then run new full > backups of the affected hosts? If you do that and you STILL run out of > space, you need more storage capacity, and you have proof of it for the > people who approve the purchase orders. > > > -- > Phil Stracchino, CDK#2 DoD#299792458 ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355 > ala...@caerllewys.net ala...@metrocast.net p...@co.ordinate.org > Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, SQL wrangler, Free Stater > It's not the years, it's the mileage. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
