Hello. It seems I forgot to mention that I tested this with Bacula 3.0.2 from Debian unstable.
Tobias Brink <tobias.br...@gmail.com> writes: > I did a quick test in a virtual machine and discovered the following: > issuing something like > > prune jobs client=... yes > > in bconsole leaves always at least one full backup job (the newest) in > the catalog, even if it could be pruned because it is much older than > the retention period. > > I couldn't find anything in the documentation (have I overlooked it?). > Is this observation correct and may I rely on this in future > versions? Well, further tests of mine showed that full backups are never pruned at all by the console prune command. Is there a way to prune all but the latest full backup with the console? BTW, I also tested this with Bacula 2.4.4 which showed the same behaviour. > Am I also correct in assuming that a finished differential backup job > never prunes full backups from the catalog? Further testing seems to support this assumption. Am I correct? The reason I need all this is because I want to do backups to disk but have some space constraints. My current plan is to do monthly full backups and weekly differentials. I want to keep 3 weeks of differential backups at all time which means that there need to be 2 full backups around at all (most) times. But as I only need 3 weeks of differential backups I could prune the previous (2 month old) full backup just before doing a new full backup which would mean the volumes of the older full backup could be re-used. I want to do this with an admin job which uses the console but don't know which command to use. Thanks in advance, Tobias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
