Hello
We're facing this situation where all of our past jobs, such as montly-based
backups and anything older than 6 months, is getting purged from the
database. This su*cks a lot, since we need to rescan a whole tape (with
bscan) and reimport everything about it back to the database to execute a
simple restore. And to get worst: as soon as this restore job is completed
everything that was imported back to the database with the bscan gets again
automatically pruned, as below:
30-May 21:31 br01 JobId 1227: Start Restore Job
RestoreFiles.2011-05-30_21.31.56_04
30-May 21:32 br01 JobId 1227: Using Device "LTO-3"
30-May 21:32 br01 JobId 1227: Ready to read from volume "M112010" on device
"LTO-3" (/dev/nst0).
30-May 23:25 br01 JobId 1227: End of Volume at file 381 on device "LTO-3"
(/dev/nst0), Volume "M112010"
30-May 23:25 br01 JobId 1227: End of all volumes.
30-May 23:25 br01 JobId 1227: Bacula br01 5.0.3 (30Aug10): 30-May-2011
23:25:57
Build OS: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
JobId: 1227
Job: RestoreFiles.2011-05-30_21.31.56_04
Restore Client: mx01
Start time: 30-May-2011 21:31:58
End time: 30-May-2011 23:25:57
Files Expected: 303
Files Restored: 303
Bytes Restored: 116,306,589
Rate: 17.0 KB/s
FD Errors: 0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination: Restore OK
-> 30-May 23:25 br01 JobId 1227: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months .
-> 30-May 23:26 br01 JobId 1227: Pruned 1 Job for client mx01 from catalog.
-> 30-May 23:26 br01 JobId 1227: Begin pruning Jobs.
-> 30-May 23:26 br01 JobId 1227: No Files found to prune.
-> 30-May 23:26 br01 JobId 1227: End auto prune.
So, there are two problems:
1) Backups older than 6 months are getting auto pruned from the database
2) Backups rescanned with bscan are also being auto pruned from the database
after a restore
I would like to ask your help or any tip on how to prevent these two things
from happening again. Is it a 'by-design' feature that we can't get rid of?
This is my pool configuration, which clearly states "no auto pruning" for
the Mensal ("monthly" in Portuguese) pool. (Is anything wrong with that?)
Pool {
Name = Default
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = no
AutoPrune = no
Volume Retention = 5 years
}
Pool {
Name = Semanal
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = yes
AutoPrune = yes
Volume Use Duration = 5 days
Volume Retention = 28 days
Recycle Oldest Volume = yes
#Purge Oldest Volume = yes
Maximum Volumes = 5
}
Pool {
Name = Mensal
Pool Type = Backup
Recycle = no
AutoPrune = no
Volume Use Duration = 5 days
Volume Retention = 5 years
LabelFormat = "M${Month:p/2/0/r}${Year}"
}
Pool {
Name = Scratch
Pool Type = Backup
}
And this is the list of tapes which jobs are not in the database anymore:
Pool: Mensal
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-
-------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------
+
| MediaId | VolumeName | VolStatus | Enabled | VolBytes | VolFiles |
VolRetention | Recycle | Slot | InChanger | MediaType | LastWritten
|
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-
-------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------
+
| 16 | M072010 | Used | 1 | 381,731,761,152 | 385 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-07-06 01:53:04 |
| 19 | M082010 | Used | 1 | 417,379,673,088 | 421 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-08-04 11:28:41 |
| 22 | M092010 | Used | 1 | 431,307,426,816 | 435 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-09-07 02:15:09 |
| 24 | M102010 | Used | 1 | 440,557,544,448 | 444 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-10-05 18:07:07 |
| 35 | M112010 | Read-Only | 1 | 450,581,448,268 | 455 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-11-02 02:29:38 |
| 38 | M122010 | Used | 1 | 514,146,769,920 | 518 |
157,680,000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2010-12-07 02:50:54 |
| 39 | M012011 | Used | 1 | 458,172,610,560 | 462 |
157,680,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2011-01-04 16:58:26 |
| 40 | M022011 | Used | 1 | 467,344,281,600 | 472 |
157,680,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2011-02-08 02:36:22 |
| 41 | M032011 | Used | 1 | 472,022,756,352 | 476 |
157,680,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2011-03-10 01:06:03 |
| 42 | M042011 | Used | 1 | 475,821,739,008 | 480 |
157,680,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2011-04-05 02:45:00 |
| 43 | M052011 | Append | 1 | 477,475,375,104 | 481 |
157,680,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | LTO-3 | 2011-05-03 02:42:14 |
+---------+------------+-----------+---------+-----------------+----------+-
-------------+---------+------+-----------+-----------+---------------------
+
*
Even when marked with the "Read-Only" attribute, tapes are getting pruned
again from the DB as soon as the restore job ends.
Thanks in advance.
Rodrigo Ferraz
Concept Netservices
www.conceptnetservices.com
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