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

On 05/29/11 13:28, fremder99 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 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)?

Sorry.  Can't be done.  You can't recycle part of a volume.

Now what you COULD do, which would achieve the same result, is to
copy/migrate only the good jobs on the volume to a new volume, then
purge the original volume.


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