Kern Sibbald wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 22:18, Patrick Van der Veken wrote: > >> Ryan Novosielski wrote: >> >>> Are your JOBS set to expire soon enough to recycle the tape? There are >>> per-job retention periods to contend with. >>> >> Hi Ryan, >> >> I do not think this is relevant as the Bacula manual clearly states that >> Bacula will always take the shortest of the all retention periods (Job, >> File, Volume) into account? In our case, job retention is a year. >> > > This is probably not a very good idea (having a long job retention and > shorter > volume retention). The problem is that your jobs will not be regularly pruned > from your volumes, so when Bacula wants a new volume, none will be purged and > it will need to do volume pruning. At that point, with your setup there will > be be a lot of work to do, which will slow down backups, and Volume pruning > is not guaranteed to completely prune the volume if it exceeds the maximum > pruning size that Bacula permits. So failures like you are seeing might > occur. > > > Hi Kern,
Now I am getting pretty confused. The Bacula manual states (under "Catalog Maintenance"): "As mentioned above, once the File records are removed from the database, you will no longer be able to restore individual files from the Job. However, as long as the Job record remains in the database, you will be able to restore all the files backuped for the Job (on version 1.37 and later). As a consequence, it is generally a good idea to retain the Job records much longer than the File records." So what is the recommendation on Job/File/Volume Retention? Keep them all in sync? What is the "maximum pruning size" you refer to? Does this for e.g. that Verify jobs are not pruned from the Volume? Regards, -- Patrick Van der Veken Qtris BV ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
