Christoph Haas wrote:
> Evening...
> 
> before filing a bug report I wanted to be sure I'm not doing anything 
> wrongly. I have frequently failing backup jobs because my streamer can't 
> be found/opened (a bug of the 2.6 Linux kernel that Kern kindly pointed me 
> to). But then the volumes that have been used so far for the job are not 
> freed again.
> 
> Example:
> 
> - A new job starts.
> - It recycles and writes on tape 1.
> - It recycles and writes on tape 2.
> - The job fails mysteriously (not the issue here).
> - Tapes 1 and 2 are still "Used" although the job they stored data
>   for is no longer existing.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to remove the files on those volumes (in the 
> database)? Currently I "update" the status of those volumes manually.

If you delete the failed job, I believe the tapes will show "purged".


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