> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Bryn Hughes <linux AT nashira DOT ca> wrote:
> 
> On 2014-11-07 04:40 AM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>> Lets say you are doing a 500 gig job and it fails after 450 gigs.. and you 
>> are using disk based backups.
>> 
>> Do you ever bother to try to reclaim that space? I mean I delete the job, so 
>> the volume can have that data recycled when the time comes, but do you ever 
>> go thru the extra trouble of finding the volumes that only have data from 
>> that job on , and deleting them from disk etc?
>> 
>> jeff.
>> 
> Are you asking if I PERSONALLY try to reclaim the space, or if Bacula 
> itself will try to?
> 
> Bacula will keep the backed up data and apply the normal retention 
> policies to it even if the backup doesn't complete successfully. That 
> 450 gigs of data on disk can still be used for a restore despite the 
> backup not completing successfully; the complexity of restoring the data 
> will depend on the circumstances around how it failed.  If for instance 
> the director crashed and the records never got inserted into the 
> database restore is going to be a lot more complex than if the client 
> went offline for some reason.  However the data is still there and can 
> still be read one way or the other.
> 
> On a personal level, whether I try to reclaim the space or not will 
> depend on whether or not I have enough space to have that partial backup 
> sitting around or not.  If it's not causing any issues then I'd be 
> inclined to let it sit till it expired on its own.
> 
> Bryn

Good question! I was asking more on a personal basis, but the other info you 
provided was helpful as well.

Jeff

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