Good evening everyone!

First of all, thanks for the great support you've provided to all of the 
community! Believe me I've learned and helped so much thanks to this mail list. 
Now, to the topic. I'm using bacula to provide backup service to one of my 
University's departments. We are using the IBM TS3100 as a tape drive for the 
backup storage. Lately our mail partition has grown quite a bit; as you know 
mail partitions contain a huge amount of small files, so I've started to have 
errors with the batch table and the /tmp partition running out of space. That 
issue is solved now, however a couple of full backups have ended in fatal 
error! Is there any way of clearing these files from the catalog, so the space 
they occupied on the tape(s) may be used for other jobs? I've run a simple 
script that takes the jobId of these jobs and then runs

purge files jobid=nnnn
delete job jobid=nnnn

But that doesn't seem to increase the free space on tapes. Is there anything 
else to do? Note that purging a volume is not helpful, as some backups have 
been sliced across more than one tape. 

P.D.: I'm not interested in deleting the backup files. I just want to let 
bacula know that these files are not useful, and that their space may be 
overwritten

Gustavo
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