Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail

2014-11-07 08:53:13
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail
From: heitor AT bacula.com DOT br
To: Bryn Hughes <linux AT nashira DOT ca>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 10:50:15 -0300 (BRT)
> 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.

I personally wouldn't reclaim that space, since you could also restore from a 
incomplete job. At least, not until you rerun and terminate it OK.
Btw: you could split your fileset in two or three jobs, in order avoid having 
to restart a hole 500Gb backup in case of fail.

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