Hello,
On 30.11.2005 14:59, Jason Baker wrote:
I finally got Bacula 1.38 working on my shiny new Fedora Core 4 box
yesterday, thanks to all who helped answer questions. I ran a full
backup lastnight and actually ran out of tape space, so now I would like
to reuse those tape and run another full. Here is my situation:
Bacula 1.38 on FC4 box using Postgres 8.1
HP Surestor 40x6 with 6 DDS-4 tapes.
I run a format script which is basically some MT and MTX commands:
/etc/bacula/mtx-changer /dev/sg0 load 1 /dev/nst0 0
mt -f /dev/st0 rewind
mt -f /dev/st0 weof
I do this for all 6 tapes. This is of course when Bacula isn't running.
Then I start Bacula and use the label command to label the tapes
BACKUP01, BACKUP02...etc. Now I would like to reuse these tapes to
perform another full backup, using the same label, but I don't want to
have to go through the trouble of "reformatting" them every time I want
to use them. Is there a way to do this? I have "Read the Fine Manual"
and I'm not sure it is giving me the information I want. Thank you.
use the console commands prune, purge or delete.
Prune respects retention periods and thus is safe, but it will not free
the volumes you used for testing, unless you set very short retention
periods. Purge unconditionally frees the volumes. You really don't want
to use that command in production mode, I think. Delete deletes records
from the catalog, for example all jobs from a volume, so thatthe volume
can be recycled.
See the corrsponding explanation in TFM.
Arno
Jason
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