I'll let others give a full answer, but one important point is that intervals or periods are specified in seconds, so in your example below, you need to ensure you specify the right qualifier (months).
On Monday 04 December 2006 16:17, Marcus Hallberg wrote: > Hi! > > I just wants to see if I have understood this correctly... I am backing > up to disk and I want to configure my retention times correctly. > > What I do is to take one fullbackup every 3 months and daily > incrementals in between. > What I want is to be able to restore data that is three months old and > have bacula to recycle my volumes and prune my database. In the example > I have added one extra month to be on the safe side. > > configuration of the poolresource: > > recycle = yes > autoprune = yes > maximum volume jobs = 1 > volume retention = 7 (for fullbackups) > volume retention = 4 (for incremental) > > would this recycle my volumes (diskfiles) after the specified time and > remove the corresponding jobrecords from the database? > > Am I missing something or am I good to go? > > /marcus > > -- > /Marcus Hallberg > Wimlet Consulting AB > Djurgårdsgatan 10 > 414 62 Göteborg > mobil: 0707-141716 > e-post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > hemsida: www.wimlet.se > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
