On Tuesday 26 September 2006 00:23, Ryan Novosielski wrote: > Daniel Hoeving wrote: > > Mike, > > > > Thank you, I've discovered the issue. Who ever set our back-ups up > > originally set a file retention period of thirty days and a job > > retention period of 365 so while I can see the job, the files are > > pruned... > > I'd like to ask a side question (which I hope will not offend the > original author: I know that in my former backup software (HP Data > Protector), there was some value to keeping jobs longer than files. You > would still have the location of the job saved, and know where it was on > what tape. If you couldn't restore file by file, at least you knew where > to start to restore that listing and you'd know what backup to restore > if you wanted to go ahead and restore the whole thing. Is that true of > Bacula,
Yes, and in 1.38.11 or later you have the option of restoring all the files, since as you say, file by file is no longer possible after the file records have been pruned. In 1.39.22 or later, you can also Migrate the job, in which case, the File records will be restored -- however, unless you change the retention period, they will be pruned rather quickly. > or must you do a bscan to do anything useful? No. > > -- > ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ > |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III > |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) > \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
