> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. Dezember 2008 17:55
> An: andreas AT krummrich DOT org
> Cc: bacula-users AT lists.sf DOT net
> Betreff: Re: [Bacula-users] How to manually overwrite a tape within the
> retention period?
> 
> >> > The problem is, that I only have one volume in the full backup
> pool
> >>
> >> I would say this is a problem. It is never wise to only have 1 tape
> in
> >> a pool.
> >
> > Why ist hat a problem? One full backup and four incremental backups.
> >
> You should always have at least 1 full backup on bacula volumes at all
> times. Each week when bacula is doing the full backup you have no
> backups. If the machine died (hard disk crash) then your data will be
> lost.

Good point ;-) I never saw it that way!

> 
> >> > Is there a way to mark a volume as over writable that I do not
> need
> >> to take
> >> > care of that?
> >> >
> >>
> >> purge volume
> >>
> >> in a bacula console and follow the prompts
> >
> > Is it still possible, after I purged the volume, but need to restore
> files,
> > before the next full backup starts?
> >
> 
> As long as you have not written anything to the volume you can recover
> individual files with bextract or reimport the entire volume to the
> catalog with bscan.

Thanks for the fast help!

> 
> John

Kind Regards,
        Andreas


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