On 04/13/13 13:15, LDC - Gustavo El Khoury wrote:
> 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 

OK, if you're not actually getting anywhere near running out of space,
you just have to get used to the idea that tape is not disk and that
that's how tape storage works.  If you've more storage than you expect
to ever need, there's no point getting excited over a little used space
that hasn't been reclaimed yet.

On the other hand, if you have jobs failing because they're not
correctly being continued on the next tape, then you have a
configuration problem somewhere that you need to fix.


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