John, I just have one more question. If a tape has expired because of the volume retention period and the job record is in intact in the catalog will the incremental backup for a given client continue or will it be upgraded to a "FULL back-up" because the tape has expired? Thank you.
Uthra -----Original Message----- From: John Drescher [mailto:dresche...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:08 AM To: Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]; bacula-users Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] restore from expired tapes On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] <uthra.r....@nasa.gov> wrote: > John, > > We have only volume retention set for the pools. I have not set job and file > retention for the different pools. So, in my case when a tape is expired the > catalog record remains intact until such time the tape is recycled right? > > Once the tape is recycled the catalog record for the jobs on that tapes is > deleted. > > I need one clarification please. If the tape has expired but not recycled, I > can still do a successful restore right? > Yes. If the tape/volume has its retention period expired but it was not recycled you should be able to restore as normal. I believe in that case (with no specified job or file retention) bacula would not have purged the job records until the tape was recycled. John ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
