Hey Hymie...
Job Retention is just for clean up the catalog from old jobs. What make a
Volume Recyclable is the Volume Retention after the volume turns on Full or
Used. I set up my File and Job Retention always longer than my Volume
Retention because when it finish and turns on Purged, the job entries on the
catalog are deleted too.
Rickifer Barros
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:00 PM, hymie! <hy...@lactose.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> Konstantin Khomoutov writes:
> >hymie! <hy...@lactose.homelinux.net> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
>
> Yes, I screwed up the last sentence. Let me try again please.
>
> If my Job Retention is 1 month, and my Volume Retention is 3 months,
> then at the end of 1 month, my volumes are still marked as "Full", and
> will not be pruned, recycled or written to, even though the jobs in
> those volumes are expired.
>
> >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
>
> Gotcha.
>
> Actually, what I'm looking for is the opposite. I'd like Bacula to
> recognize that the jobs on the volume have expired, and the volumes
> can be pruned and recycled. But it appears that it does not matter when
> the Job Retention is, only the Volume Retention decides when my volumes
> are pruned.
>
> ...or maybe it's "Whichever one is longer" ?
>
> Maybe I need to set up separate pools, based on retention, so that jobs
> with a 1 month retention are stored on volumes with 1 month retention,
> and jobs with a 3 month retention are stored on volumes with 3 month
> retention?
>
> --hymie! http://lactose.homelinux.net/~hymie
> hy...@lactose.homelinux.net
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