On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:07 PM, LDC - Gustavo El Khoury
<gustavo AT ldc.usb DOT ve> wrote:
> 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

Tapes can not be partially erased it is an all or nothing.

John

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