We are looking at the same scenario. It was my belief that the retention period for the separate pools (1 pool for the disk based backup and 1 for the copy to tapes) could be different. For example, we set our disk based backups to retain monthly backups (FULL) for 3 months, but our copy to tape monthly backups set to 1 year. It was my understanding that once the disk based backup expired in 3 months the copy would be promoted to the original backup in the catalog and available for restore and that the 1 year retention would be used. Please advise if this assumption is INCORRECT. We are still trying to iron out all the little nuances of our backup scenario. Thanks.
Steven Hammond I.T. Manager Technical Chemical Company For support, please email us at supp...@technicalchemical.com. -----Original Message----- From: dweimer [mailto:dwei...@dweimer.net] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 10:41 AM To: Bacula Users Subject: [Bacula-users] Is it Possible to Change File, Job, and Volume Retention Periods when Coping a job I am searching for a way of making my copy jobs stick around for a longer period of time then the original jobs. Intended goal, original jobs are backups to file system, copy jobs go to tape and are taken offsite. I intend to keep the file backups for a couple of months for fast restores of accidentally deleted files. The copy jobs however I intend to keep for at least a year and be able to search the database for files on them. So that in the event I do have to restore from one of the offsite tape backups, I can find the file and give the local operator the specific volume to go and retrieve. I don't see any obvious method of setting a longer retention period on the copy jobs. I tried setting longer periods in the tape pool resource, but don't see any messages in the job logs stating that it was indeed extended from the original jobs. What is the best way to accomplish this? Will setting a longer file/job retention periods with a shorter volume retention allow the volumes of the disk pool to recycle, while the job and file information stay intact on the tape pool volumes? Or do I need to use a SQL selection admin job to purge the disk volumes thereby promoting the offsite copy jobs to backup jobs? -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60134071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60135031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
