I would not worry about having unlimited job retention unless you have thousands of jobs per day.
The largest part of the catalog is file retention, so reducing that should help (but you will have to restore complete jobs, not a single file/folder). __Martin >>>>> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:37:54 +0200 (CEST), krashoverride said: > > Hey Jérôme, > > We used to work with file/job retention, but as it's written in the manual, > it is a client directive, not a job directive > I have 2 jobs configured (one for daily/weekly + one for monthly), how can I > affect the "job retention" directive to only one job ? > If I set it to the client, it will affect both jobs (i have to to keep > everything for mensual job) > > Thank you! > > Thibault > > ----- Mail original ----- > De: "Jérôme Blion" <jerome.bl...@free.fr> > À: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Envoyé: Lundi 8 Octobre 2018 17:07:09 > Objet: Re: [Bacula-users] deal with Bacula database growth > > Le 08/10/2018 à 16:42, krashoverr...@free.fr a écrit : > > Hey there, > > > > What are the best practices to deal with Bacula database size? > > Today i have configured my bacula for daily + weekly + monthly backups. > > Daily and Weekly pools have a volume retention period of 30 days while > > Monthly pool has no volume retention. > > Bacula is running from ~1 year, i have ~2.8To to backup, and I guess, > > because of the "no retention" policy, my database is now 13Gb. > > > > Considering I have no choice but to keep all my mensual backups, anything I > > can do to "extract" these mensual backups from my catalog, while still > > having the possibility to restore any of them "as fast as I can" ? > > > > If I purge jobs from catalog, I won't be able to restore a single > > file/folder from tapes, but will have to bextract the whole tape and dig > > inside. > > If I create (let's say) yearly catalogs, I will lost my media database > > every year. > > > > Any suggestion appreciated! > > > > Thank you, > > > > Thibault > > Hello, > > Volume retention is related to volume management (space used for volumes) > > File and Job Retention are linked to the catalog. You have to check that > you don't store Files and Jobs records too much time.HTH. > > HTH > > Jérôme Blion. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
