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
:
>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
Thanks for replying, At the moment I don't have an autoloader only a
single LTO 7 drive.
All the best, Frank
Am 26.12.2020 um 16:00 schrieb Brock Palen:
> Generally yes.
> If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable
> and add them to a Scratch pool.
>
> That
Generally yes.
If you have an auto loader and the tapes are in the loader I would prelable and
add them to a Scratch pool.
That way you can watch what’s going on in tape demand. In general yes Bareos
will ask for a ’new append-able volume’ which would let you manually label.
Which makes
What are your client File and Job retention settings?
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> On Dec 26, 2020, at 1:24 AM, iegan Amadeus wrote:
>
> Hello! I have a problem with Bareos backups. He makes a full backup in less
Hello there,
I have done a lot of test with writing to LTO tape. Now I want to set the
tapes back to a clean state, like new. I have found this in the web:
Insert the tape into drive.
mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind
mt -f ${DRIVE} weof
mt -f ${DRIVE} rewind
Now the tape should be ready for usage,