Hi James,
Thanks for replying.
If I understand you correctly, then I think that is what I'm doing.
I have a very high File and Job retention on the clients resource (10
years), and a volume retention on the pools that I actually do want to
use, e.g. 13 days, 60 days, 1 year, 10 years depending on the pool.
It appears though, the files are still being pruned. I believe they
should not be pruned until the volume is.
Is that what you have implemented?
Dermot.
On 22 March 2011 14:13, James Woodward <james.woodw...@ualberta.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've only seen it on the list and from some testing. The retention periods
> are broken and I don 't think it will be fixed until 5.1. When a job is
> written to the pool with a lower retention all jobs and files are pruned
> according to that retention period. My solution was to bump everything up to
> the higher retention period and then I'll lower the pools later on when I've
> confirmed that it's fixed in 5.1 and we upgrade. This isn't much of an issue
> for me since everything goes to a tape library. It may not work well for you.
>
> James
>
> On 2011-03-22, at 7:02 AM, Dermot Beirne wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I use Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04
>>
>> I backup from a number of clients (windows and linux) to a disk raid
>> and then migrate to tape afterwards.
>> I am concerned that my retention is not working properly.
>>
>> This is my client config for one client:
>>
>>
>> # Client (File Services) to backup
>> Client {
>> Name = interlink-pdc-fd
>> Address = 10.1.8.11
>> FDPort = 9102
>> Catalog = MyCatalog
>> Password = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" # password for FileDaemon
>> Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1
>> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
>> Job Retention = 10 years
>> File Retention = 10 years
>> }
>>
>> When I run "query" and choose:
>> 5: List all backups for a Client
>>
>> The oldest one is:
>>
>> | JobId | Client | FileSet | Level |
>> StartTime | JobFiles | JobBytes | VolumeName |
>> +--------+------------------+-----------------------+-------+---------------------+-----------+-----------------+------------+
>> | 10,614 | interlink-pdc-fd | interlink-pdc Fileset | F |
>> 2010-12-05 22:00:00 | 1,580,321 | 188,248,232,869 | 000040L4
>>
>> If I choose "restore" and option 3: Enter list of comma separated
>> JobIds to select, and enter jobid 10614
>> I get:
>>
>> Select item: (1-13): 3
>> Enter JobId(s), comma separated, to restore: 10614
>> You have selected the following JobId: 10614
>>
>> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 10614 ...
>>
>> For one or more of the JobIds selected, no files were found,
>> so file selection is not possible.
>> Most likely your retention policy pruned the files.
>>
>> Do you want to restore all the files? (yes|no):
>>
>>
>> The only other place where retentions are specified is in the pool.
>> I have 4 disk pools, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly.
>> There is a Volume Retention specified here which ranges from 2 to 4
>> days, to ensure the disk volumes are freed up quickly after migration.
>>
>> I also have 4 tape pools, where Volume Retention ranges from 13 days
>> to 10 years.
>>
>> My understanding is that the pool retention takes precedence over the
>> client. So keeping a high file and job retention on the clients, and
>> then the correct required retention on the volume in the pool, should
>> ensure the catalog file and job contents are preserved until the
>> volume is recycled.
>>
>> This does not appear to be happening.
>>
>> Would anyone know why this is happening? Thank you.
>>
>> Dermot.
>>
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