Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

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 backup media has been implemented by emulating a 
classical tape library. With real tapes it would be an extremely costly 
operation to fetch and (partially) overwrite all older backups of a DLE 
once a level 0 has been written. Sure, if amanda knew she was operating 
on disks rather than on tapes she could do so easily. But what would be 
the benefit?