That's not really an option... The other day I purged the tape where the
incomplete job was, with purge jobs volume, and I lost an incremental backup I
had, that was stored in that tape. Your suggestion will only work if the given
tape would ONLY contain the incomplete backup, which is hardly the case.
BTW i have never run out of space (25 LTO3 400GB tapes vs 2.7 TB SAN that's not
even full :) ) but I'm just trying to avoid wasting space
LDC - Gustavo El Khoury
On 13/04/2013, at 11:51 a.m., Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
wrote:
> On 04/12/13 22:44, LDC - Gustavo El Khoury wrote:
>> If what you're saying is correct (which seems the case, sadly) let's propose
>> a weird, bit degenerated but still useful case: retention period of one
>> month, and a series of failed backups, which fail after writing a lot of
>> data into tapes... What will happen if the tapes get filled with incomplete
>> backup files before one month, and there's no space for a new job?
>> BTW, is there a way to delete all files associated with a job from the
>> catalog? Will it do any difference? (I think it was purge files jobid=nnn
>> but not sure)
>
> Is it feasible for you to purge the applicable tapes, then run new full
> backups of the affected hosts? If you do that and you STILL run out of
> space, you need more storage capacity, and you have proof of it for the
> people who approve the purchase orders.
>
>
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