Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Mistaken append of job to media

2011-06-07 15:45:24
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Mistaken append of job to media
From: Rory Campbell-Lange <rory AT campbell-lange DOT net>
To: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:41:27 +0100
On 07/06/11, Rory Campbell-Lange (rory AT campbell-lange DOT net) wrote:
> On 07/06/11, Phil Stracchino (alaric AT metrocast DOT net) wrote:
> > On 06/07/11 12:14, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:
> > > Does deleting the job remove the data (in this case the data for job
> > > 329) off the tape? That is what I need to do.
...
> > If it's really, really important to you that no trace of job 329 remain
> > on that tape, then you need to migrate both job 315 AND job 329 to new
> > media, then purge the old media, manually erase it from beginning to end
> > with something like mt, and then relabel it.  But if it's really that
> > important to you that no trace of data from one job ever remain on a
> > tape used by another, then you need to be erasing and relabelling your
> > tapes between EVERY use.[1]  I'm going to go out on a limb here and
> > guess that you probably don't actually want or need to be doing that.

Actually, can't I retrieve the last file off job 315, forward a bit for
safety, write WEOF, and then write garbage from there?

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