RE: [Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management

2006-05-19 Thread Alan Brown
On Fri, 19 May 2006, Meidal, Knut wrote: The problem would be that there is no way to start rewriting a tape, and then "stop" before you overwrite the important data at the end without destroying that, too. The only way out of that would be to come up with a "tape reclaim" feature where you read

RE: [Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management

2006-05-19 Thread Meidal, Knut
] On Behalf Of Diogo MeloSent: Friday, May 19, 2006 9:43 AMCc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management Would it be too difficult to make it possible? I think it would be a great feature.. We'd use all the tape space 2006/5/19,

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management

2006-05-19 Thread Diogo Melo
Would it be too difficult to make it possible? I think it would be a great feature.. We'd use all the tape space2006/5/19, Frank Sweetser < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>:On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:42:12AM -0300, Diogo Melo wrote: > -When it's 02/26/2006, the first and the second job will be expired, a

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management

2006-05-19 Thread Frank Sweetser
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:42:12AM -0300, Diogo Melo wrote: > -When it's 02/26/2006, the first and the second job will be expired, and > I don't know if bacula permits me to use this 390GB that could be avaliable > on this tape even before the expiration of the third job? No, it will not. Bac

[Bacula-users] Doubt about tape space management

2006-05-19 Thread Diogo Melo
Hello, I've been using bacula 1.38.0 with success, but I'm wondering if the situation that I'll try to describe is possible:- Let's assume a 400GB tape with 3 jobs stored and each one has a different retention time. Start date: 02/10/2006    - 1º job: 300GB size, expiration time: 5 days    - 2