On 5/10/2011 12:36 AM, mulle78 wrote:
> Hello @all, I've purged a volume and appended a new back up to the tape. Is 
> there a way to find out the free space on a tape to be shure that a reorg of 
> a tap has be done successfully?!
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If the volume was purged, then Bacula will write from the beginning.  
There is no way to know how much space is left on a tape (unless you 
have compression disabled--and then probably only approximately), 
however, you can see how much data Bacula believes is on the tape--if 
that is relatively consistent with how large your backup was, then you 
know that is the only thing on the tape.  From bconsole, "list media" 
will display lots of information--look at the "VolBytes" field to see 
how much data is stored on the tape.  Note that "VolFiles" are tape 
files--not your files, unless configured otherwise bacula will put a 
end-of-file mark on the tape every gigabyte (IIRC) and at the end of 
every backup that doesn't end on a gigabyte boundary for faster 
positioning during restore.

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