> File Retention = 30 days > Job Retention = 6 months > Volume Retention = 1 year > Fine. After 30 days you will either only be able to do a full restore or have to use bscan before restoring. > > Then am I correct in thinking that when I back up my catalog, I should only > keep it for 6 months?
Most likely a lot shorter than that. The point is you want to do a catalog backup daily to protect you from database corruption or loss. I am sure you will spot a problem before 6 months elapses. The longest I have gone back was 1 week. >My thinking being that the catalog itself contains 6 > months of Job records and is 6 months old, so keeping it for any longer is > meaningless. > > Also, is it bad practice to store the catalog backups along with the > filesystem backups themselves? > I put that on a different server / array than the database. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
