Yes that is true. I was concerned that a deleted volume of a job with no files would cause subsequent backups to fail. That doesn't seem to be the case. It is only incr/diffs that would get deleted since fulls are never empty.
-Chris- On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, 17:57 Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote: > The problem is that the catalog doesn't record which jobs are on each > volume. > It uses the jobmedia table to record which files of a job are on each > volume > (in groups between firstindex and lastindex). As a result, if a job has no > files then it has no rows in the jobmedia table and hence is invisible to > 'query 14'. > > Why are you worried about deleting these empty volumes? There should be no > problem because they will never be used in a restore. > > __Martin > > > >>>>> On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 23:17:50 +0100, Chris Wilkinson said: > > > > Yes that is true. In the other cases I found, these were also zero file > > incr/diff jobs. > > > > However it appears that the job wrote a Volume as it appears in the list > > media result and there is such a Volume on disk but only 667 bytes so > only > > the label I presume. > > > > I had expected that 'query 14' would recognise that a Volume has an > > associated job even if that job wrote zero files to the volume but it > > doesn't. > > > > The script needs some additional condition for deletion to avoid deleting > > these zero file volumes. No idea what that might be right now. > > > > Chris- > > > > On Thu, 13 Apr 2023, 22:55 Bill Arlofski, <w...@protonmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hello Chris, > > > > > > Your jobid 2,371 wrote 0 files, 0 bytes, and the job's Summary shows > for > > > `Volume name(s):` No volumes. > > > > > > So, unless there are other jobs on this volume, jobid 2,371 did not > > > actually write to it. > > > > > > > > > Hope this helps, > > > Bill > > > > > > -- > > > Bill Arlofski > > > w...@protonmail.com > > > > > > -Chris- > > >
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