On 03/28/16 18:41, Jason Voorhees wrote: > Hello guys: > > I feel like a newbie in Bacula so I'm trying to understand some > concepts to make my own documents for clarification. > > I have a question: what's the difference between a Full and Used status?
A Full tape has necessarily been Used. A Used tape is not necessarily Full, but because it is marked Used, nothing more can be written to it without either setting it back to Append, or Recycling it. Example usage: My monthly full backup tapes have a 24-hour use window. The backup takes about one and a half tapes. At the end of the full backup, I manually mark the half-full tape Used to prevent any other jobs from being written to it. My daily disk incremental-backup volumes have a 23-hour use window. That use window expires about an hour before the next day's backup starts. This forces the previous day's volume to be marked Used, and a new volume created for the new day's backups, instead of appending another set of backups to the previous volume. Thus I only ever have one days' backups in a single disk volume, and can prune old volumes with complete freedom. -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications ph...@caerllewys.net p...@co.ordinate.org Landline: 603.293.8485 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
