Thanks and yes, working with different pools will be a good thing for
controlling the usage of the tapes.
Thanks, Frank
Am 26. Dezember 2020 18:49:53 MEZ schrieb Brock Palen
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>Your hunch is correct. Tape is linear and only appended to. Even
>systems like LTFS only append and never write
Your hunch is correct. Tape is linear and only appended to. Even systems like
LTFS only append and never write data in hold of deleted/expired data.
This is one reason why many outlets full and incrementals on different pools
and this different tapes. So they expire at similar times so the
It's almost obvious if you look at possible medium states but to give
you a verbose answer - the media can be read from any point but can only
be appended at the end.
So if any job is being pruned/purged/deleted, it's just being
"forgotten" by the database but is still present on the media
Hi there,
a question how Bareos managed space on tape:
Hypothetc:
On a LTO tape are stored in this order 3 jobs:
1: 3 TB
2: 2 TB
3: 1 TB
Job 1 is deleted.
Now a new job is queued, the spooling file has a size of 2 TB.
Will now the SD despool it
a) on position 4 of the tape (append) [this is
