I would also like to add that it is good to have backups from varying dates
around in case the most recent backup is ex after a file was accidentally
deleted and you need to restore it from an older backup.
Anton "exuvo" Olsson
ex...@exuvo.se
On 2023-03-08 12:20, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
Hi,
Jens Berg <jens.b...@vtech-iad.de> (Mi 08 Mär 2023 10:06:34 CET):
She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used.
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Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that
Olivier <olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th> (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:46:37 CET):
While the tape/slot could free the level 1 dumps for a-disk, there could be
some DLE for other disks/hosts that are still valid on that tape/slot.
Yes, I know that amanda was designed for tapes initially (and I'm still
using it happily with tapes.).
The "disk garbage collection" was just a minor issue I found when
checking what space is available on one of our disk based backup
servers.
Thanks for the input.
