On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:55:07 -0400 hymie! <hy...@lactose.homelinux.net> wrote:
> Do I understand this correctly? > > A volume will not be recycled until the Volume Retention has expired, > even if all of the backups stored in that volume have expired. If my > Job Retention is 1 month, and my Volume Retention is 3 months, then my > volumes are not available after 1 month even though the jobs in those > volumes are expired. Possibly there's an error in the last sentence. Job retention of 1 month means Bacula will remove the catalog (database) entries for such jobs when these records grow older than 1 month. Volumes will continue to live on, just you won't be able to *directly* restore anything from then (that is, simply using bconsole commands) because no catalog entries would exist describing jobs. But that does not prevent you from doing emergency recovery using those volumes because you can: 1) Use bls and bextract to query a volume and get the nececcary files right from it; 2) Use bscan to scan the data on a volume (or a series of volumes) and populate the catalog using the aquired metadata. This requires some extra care to not make the newly inserted records immediately pruned again after the scanning job ends, but it's doable. Search the list archives for more info. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
