Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

Heiko Schlittermann <[email protected]> Wed, 8 Mar 2023 12:20:00 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
Organization	schlittermann -- internet & unix support
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi,

Jens Berg <[email protected]> (Mi 08 Mär 2023 10:06:34 CET):
> She does in the moment a tape (= slot) is re-used.
…
> Remember that amanda was initially designed to work with tapes and that

Olivier <[email protected]> (Mi 08 Mär 2023 11:46:37 CET):
> 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.


Yes, I know that amanda was designed for tapes initially (and I'm still
using it happily with tapes.).

The "disk garbage collection" was just a minor issue I found when
checking what space is available on one of our disk based backup
servers.

Thanks for the input.
-- 
Heiko

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