> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Bryn Hughes <li...@nashira.ca> wrote: > > On 2014-11-07 04:40 AM, Jeff MacDonald wrote: >> Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you >> are using disk based backups. >> >> Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, so >> the volume can have that data recycled when the time comes, but do you ever >> go thru the extra trouble of finding the volumes that only have data from >> that job on , and deleting them from disk etc? >> >> jeff. >> > Are you asking if I PERSONALLY try to reclaim the space, or if Bacula > itself will try to? > > Bacula will keep the backed up data and apply the normal retention > policies to it even if the backup doesn't complete successfully. That > 450 gigs of data on disk can still be used for a restore despite the > backup not completing successfully; the complexity of restoring the data > will depend on the circumstances around how it failed. If for instance > the director crashed and the records never got inserted into the > database restore is going to be a lot more complex than if the client > went offline for some reason. However the data is still there and can > still be read one way or the other. > > On a personal level, whether I try to reclaim the space or not will > depend on whether or not I have enough space to have that partial backup > sitting around or not. If it's not causing any issues then I'd be > inclined to let it sit till it expired on its own. > > Bryn
Good question! I was asking more on a personal basis, but the other info you provided was helpful as well. Jeff > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
