Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail

2014-11-07 09:00:54
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>, Bacula Users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2014 08:58:37 -0500
> 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?


I have 5GB fixed sized volumes in my virtual disk autochanger. If a
job fails and I purge it the space used by the failed job will be
reused when needed.

John

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