If you want tapes around forever, I think your best bet is to change the retention time in the pool to, say, ten years (I'm not sure if you can do an infinite retention time off the top of my head). Usually, if bacula can manage something, why would you want to do it manually?
That said, to answer your other questions: you actually can recover what is on a tape even after the tape has been marked as "purged" in the database. The data on the tape is unchanged, and the btape and bextract utilities allow you to recover whatever is on the tape, even if it is no longer in the database. In addition to Recycle = no, you may also want to set AutoPrune = no. Otherwise, bacula will still delete database records about your tapes. You probably should make sure that the fileset resource has a shorter retention time than the jobs or volumes in the pool, since the file information takes up a lot of space in the database. The bacula manual has quite a bit of information on that aspect in the database maintenance chapter. Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I have the following doubt that I would like to know if you could > clarify to me. I have a tape group from full pool that was not on in > tape library and Bacula turn it to 'purged' state. This means that if I > return the tapes again to the jukebox then I could not recover what they > contain? > > I had thought, like preventive measure to have tapes of full pool whose > information is always accessible independent of the time, that they are > only possible to be manually recycle. What think of this measurement? > > So the tapes can only be manually recycle must be 'Recycle = no' in the > pool definition and that flag 'recycled' in each volume must be zero? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Daniel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the unauthorized use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. The information herein is intended only for use by the intended recipient(s) named above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the e-mail and any copies, printouts or attachments thereof. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
