Thank you Heitor, you can indeed set file and job retention times in the pool configuration that override those in the client config and this is exactly what i need!
Regards, Martin On 12/04/2015 04:18 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: > Hello Martin: no, you won't. > > ===================== > *show clients > Client: name=hfaria-K46CB-fd address=localhost FDport=9102 MaxJobs=10 > JobRetention=6 months FileRetention=2 months AutoPrune=1 > --> Catalog: name=MyCatalog address=*None* DBport=0 db_name=bacula > db_driver=*None* db_user=root MutliDBConn=0 > > *show pools > Pool: name=File PoolType=Backup > use_cat=1 use_once=0 cat_files=1 > max_vols=100 auto_prune=1 VolRetention=1 year > > [run backup job 1154 on volume Vol-0009] > > *purge volume=Vol-0009 > 1 File on Volume "Vol-0009" purged from catalog. > There are no more Jobs associated with Volume "Vol-0009". Marking it purged. > > *list files jobid=1154 > No results to list. > ================================ > > Nevertheless I think you can set file & job retention into Pool Resource > instead of Client one. > > Regards, > ======================================================================= > Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified > Administrator II > Telepresencial: início 02 de dezembro. > Ministro treinamento in-company Bacula (com implementação) na sua cidade. Me > mande um email. > 61 8268-4220 > Site: www.bacula.com.br | Facebook: heitor.faria > ======================================================================== > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Martin Reissner" <mreiss...@wavecon.de> >> To: "Heitor Faria" <hei...@bacula.com.br> >> Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Sent: Friday, December 4, 2015 12:59:47 PM >> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] match file/job retention to volume retention time > >> Hello Heitor, >> >> I'm not worried about the volumes (ie. storage space) but only about the >> metadata in the catalog/mysql database. I agree that the impact will be >> negligible with a few jobs/files but I want to configure all of my jobs >> to keep one "Full Run" for a year and with around 500 file daemons this >> will be quite a lot of entries in the catalog whose volumes have been >> long recycled. >> >> Regards, >> >> Martin >> >> On 12/04/2015 03:35 PM, Heitor Faria wrote: >>> Martin, >>> >>> Having a longer file & job retention than your volume retention usually >>> brings no impact, since Bacula won't retain information from alredy >>> recycled volumes. >>> >>> Regards, >>> =========================================================================== >>> Heitor Medrado de Faria - LPIC-III | ITIL-F | Bacula Systems Certified >>> Administrator II >>> Do you need Bacula training? >>> <http://bacula.us/video-classes>http://bacula.us/video-classes/ >>> I do Bacula training and deploy in any city of the world. More >>> information: <http://bacula.us>http://bacula.us/ >>> +55 61 8268-4220 >>> Site: <http://bacula.us>http://bacula.us FB: heitor.faria >>> =========================================================================== >>> >>> Enviado por TypeMail <http://www.typeapp.com/r> >>> >>> Em 4 de dez de 2015, pelo 12:31, Martin Reissner <mreiss...@wavecon.de >>> <mailto:mreiss...@wavecon.de>> escrito: >>> >>> hello, >>> >>> i want to schedule my backups like this, so one backup a month gets kept >>> for a longer timeperiod: >>> >>> Schedule { >>> Name = "mybackup-schedule" >>> Run = Level=Full Pool=1YearPool on 1 at 02:00 >>> Run = Level=Full Pool=1WeekPool on 2-31 at 02:00 >>> } >>> >>> however the only way i currently know to get this working is to set the >>> file and job retention time to a year for all backups which would fill >>> up my catalog way more than needed as most backups are only kept for a >>> week. is there a way to get around this and match the file/job retention >>> time to the volume retention? >>> >>> thanks, >>> martin >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK >>> Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. >>> Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. >>> Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for >>> multiple OSs. >>> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Bacula-users mailing list >>> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
