Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

Olivier <[email protected]> Wed, 08 Mar 2023 17:46:37 +0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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 on that tape/slot.

I don't think Amanda has any way to free some specific DLE from a
tape/slot. It is only at the tape/slot level that a tape/slot can be
erased and reused.

Best regards,

Olivier