On 3/31/2011 10:20 AM, Randy Katz wrote: > On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: >> Randy Katz wrote: >> >>> Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: >>> >>> 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your >>> Incrementals or does it matter? >> I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll >> the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. >> >> I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but >> decided this is more trouble than it's worth. >> >>> 2. Which parameter are you referring to? >>> a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? >> Both >> >>> b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? >> Volume expiry. >> >> When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from >> the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any >> version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full >> backup (and occasionally beyond). >> >> If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention >> could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be >> avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a >> full restore is not) > Well since I asked the question I have scripted a Pools.conf creation > script for Full, Diff, and Incr for each Client to backup, > removed the Pools from bacula-dir.conf and added an Include > (@/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf). It didn't take very long and > if anything needs to change is trivial to reconfigure now. As for > retaining a Full backup for so long, why is it so necessary if > I have a Full being created every month with a 3 Volume Retention and a > Time of 60d then there should never be a time when > there is no Full before Diff/Incr's, right? If I wanted a 180 day cycle > then would want to extend that to the incrementals and > diffs as well, right? >
List please disregard my last questions on this, I don't know what I was thinking. The first full cannot expire until all pertinent (between the date of the First Full and the next Full) Incrementals and/or Differentials have expired otherwise it renders them virtually useless. Regards, Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
