Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] purging part of a tape?

2011-05-29 17:52:49
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] purging part of a tape?
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 17:49:48 -0400
> I feel like I've come a long way learning bacula, and am starting to "use" it!
>
> After using several autochanger tapes in a single job, the job failed, so I'd 
> like to reclaim that used space and rerun the job.
>
> I can use "purge jobs volume=xxx" for the _whole_ tapes used, but is there a 
> way I can "reclaim" the space it used on the first tape (which had other data 
> from a different job on it)?
>

No you can not do this. Purging is an entire volume or nothing.

John

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