Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 12:20:00PM +0100, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: Hi, Jens Berg (Mi 08 Mär 2023 10:06:34 CET): She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used. … Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that Olivier (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:46:37 CET): While the

Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-08 Thread Exuvo
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:

Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-08 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi, Jens Berg (Mi 08 Mär 2023 10:06:34 CET): > She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used. … > Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that Olivier (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:46:37 CET): > While the tape/slot could free the level 1 dumps for a-disk, there could be >

Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-08 Thread Olivier
Hi, > Given a series of dumps like > > a-host a-disk 1 1 1 0 1 1 > > the left most level 1 dumps are worthless, because we already dropped > the "base" level 0. 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

Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-08 Thread Jens Berg
On 08.03.2023 08:14, Heiko Schlittermann wrote: - Does amanda delete these files? From the output of `amadmin find` it does not look as if it does. She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used. Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that using disks as

garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

2023-03-07 Thread Heiko Schlittermann
Hi, if I understand and observed well, then for a disk based backup we have the chunks as single files in the slot* directories. Given a series of dumps like a-host a-disk 1 1 1 0 1 1 the left most level 1 dumps are worthless, because we already dropped the "base" level 0. - Does