Re: garbage collect: free orphaned chunks from disks?

I would also like to add that it is good to have backups from varying dates around in case the most recent backup is ex after a file was accidentally deleted and you need to restore it from an older backup.

Anton "exuvo" Olsson
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On 2023-03-08 12:20, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> 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.