> Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:34:26 +0200 > From: Marcus M?lb?sch <muelbue...@as-infodienste.de> > Subject: > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4bf4f412.40...@as-infodienste.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >> > I have to admit I am a bit confused now with two places to define >> > AutoPrune. >> > >> > The manual tells nothing about which resource takes precedence; or >> > at least I cannot find it. > One cigarette later it is clear now: > > The AutoPrune directive in the Client Resource prunes Job and File > records; while the AutoPrune directive in the Pool Resource prunes > volume records. > > Pruning Volume records also prunes file and job records. > > So to keep the archived backups in the catalog I need to disable > AutoPruning of File and Job Records, disable AutoPruning in the Pool > resource for the Pool containing the Volumes with the Archives, but > enable AutoPruning for the Volumes containing the Monthly, Weekly, Daily > Pools. > > I think I finally got it right :-) > > Marcus >
I believe pruning a volume does NOT prune file and job records. I believe when you try to prune a volume, bacula checks for unpruned job records and if it finds any it does not prune the volume. I think it does not check for whether there are still Files in the db associated with that job, however. For archives, you may find it easier to just set a meaningful retention period for the job and a short retention period for the files and then bscan them back in if needed. But that's a pain. I would question the usefulness of most any backup package for "archiving" data. Client hard drive space is cheap and your space requirements for new data are probably growing exponentially (as opposed to linearly) so you may be able to just keep it live wherever it lives--setting it Read-Only or something to avoid accidental deletion or modifications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
