Mike Ruskai wrote: > When a tape volume is recycled, the contents are lost. Is the same true > for a disc volume? Is the whole file truncated, or does it just start > from the beginning, and only destroy the contents it actually overwrites? >
I don't believe the volume file is changed at all when the volume status is changed to recycle. When the volume status goes from recycled to append and is actually written to, the volume file then gets truncated and will contain only the newly written data. However, with most file systems, the sectors from the original volume file will still contain data until they are reused by the file system and written to, though they are not linked to any file in the directory tree. To my knowledge Bacula does not "safe erase" recycled volume files before overwriting them. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
