On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Dick <jcdick1 AT yahoo DOT com>
wrote:
>
> I've looked through the documentation of Bacula, and perhaps it is called
> something else and I just didn't recognize it.
>
> Does Bacula support tape reclamation? By this, I mean, as the retention
> period on particular pieces of data expire, can Bacula automatically begin
> condensing what could become only "half-full" tapes onto new tapes and return
> now emptied tapes back into the pool? I realize this would require multiple
> tape drives. While it might cause the drives to run more often, but it would
> make tape usage more efficient than having many tapes with a few "empty
> spots" set now as "appendable."
>
> As I said, it may be already in there and I didn't recognize the description
> of the functionality.
>
The concept of "half-full" volumes does not exist in bacula. I mean a
volume is only recycled in its entirety and that up until a volume
gets recycled all of the data on that volume still exists.
John
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