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> From: LeJav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: October 23, 2008 4:10:25 AM EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Bacula-users] Unlimited Retention > > Hello, > > Here is my problem: I want to backup my system with normal strategy > (full every week, incremental, retention....), but I have also data > on > this server that I want to archive indefinitely (without retention). > To do that, i declared first retention period for this job as 100 > years. > But it did not work. > Investigating in source code, I found that: > > ua_prune.c > ... > period = client->FileRetention; > now = (utime_t)time(NULL); > > /* Select Jobs -- for counting */ > Mmsg(query, count_select_job, edit_uint64(now - period, ed1), > edit_int64(cr.ClientId, ed2)); > Dmsg3(050, "select now=%u period=%u sql=%s\n", (uint32_t)now, > (uint32_t)period, query.c_str()); > ... > > and : time() returns the time since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, January > 1, 1970), measured in seconds. > for instance, today, now = 1224742378 = 38.8 years > this means that if i set a retention > 39 years, now-period will be > negative, > and then a very very big number in unsigned int64, so jobs will be > always pruned > > for information, there is no such problem for volume retention: > next_vol.c : > ... > if ((mr->LastWritten + mr->VolRetention) < (utime_t)time(NULL) > ... > everything is utime_t = int64_t > so, there is here no problem > > > it would be nice to have for retention a keyword like "infinite". > > The solution I have found is to set AutoPrune = no for the client, > and to set > pruning for files, jobs and volumes for the jobs which need it. > > Any other suggestion ? > > Thx > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's > challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win > great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in > the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Dan Langille http://langille.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
