Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail

2014-11-12 08:46:44
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] large jobs that fail
From: Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>
To: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:41:01 -0400
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 9:58 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 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?
> 
> 
> 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

By purge did you mean “delete jobid=123” or do you mean purge the actual volume 
?

jeff.


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