Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread William Muriithi
Adam, >> no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved >> on the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here. > How about if I set: > Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 > Then all jobs will be written on continuous tape segments. Not necessary.

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 7/25/19 8:37 AM, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > On 25/07/19 13:15, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > >> no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved >> on the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here. > How about if I set: > > Maximum Concurrent Jobs

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:37:26PM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > On 25/07/19 13:15, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: > > > no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved > > on the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here. > How about if I set: > >

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Adam Weremczuk
On 25/07/19 13:15, Uwe Schuerkamp wrote: no, I don't think so. If you run parallel Jobs the data will be interleaved on the tape, and a tape being a seq. access medium you are out of luck here. How about if I set: Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1 Then all jobs will be written on continuous tape s

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 01:00:35PM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi Uwe, > > I don't want to wipe the whole tape. > Only data from one specific full backup job. > I want to write another full backup of the same client to this tape. > I don't have enough space for two. > I want all other backups o

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Heitor Faria
> Hi Uwe, Hello Adam, > I don't want to wipe the whole tape. > Only data from one specific full backup job. > I want to write another full backup of the same client to this tape. > I don't have enough space for two. > I want all other backups of other clients present on this tape to remain > int

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Uwe Schuerkamp
Hello Adam, if you don't mind having to re-label the volume aftwards a delete volume= followed by an mt -f /dev/st0 weof # insert your tape device here should reliably wipe your tape. All the best, Uwe On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 11:54:35AM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it poss

Re: [Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi Uwe, I don't want to wipe the whole tape. Only data from one specific full backup job. I want to write another full backup of the same client to this tape. I don't have enough space for two. I want all other backups of other clients present on this tape to remain intact. Is it at all possibl

[Bacula-users] deleting data written to volume

2019-07-25 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, Is it possible with Bacula tools to delete data written to a volume? Bacula console commands "delete" and "purge" only seam to affect the catalog database. For storage I'm using LTO-4 tapes which unfortunately don't support LTFS yet. I think ideally I would like tape space to be fr