Messages like "Begin pruning Jobs older than ..." should appear after the termination status of the job. Do you see any messages like that?
__Martin >>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 14:15:24 +0200, Justin Case said: > > I am wondering why I am seeing in my catalog lots of jobs older than the > JobRetention defined in the pools, and also older than the default > JobRetention assumed for the clients. > The volume recycling seems to work fine adhering to the VolumeRetention in > the pools. > > To me it is a mystery, probably be cause I overlook some dependencies I am > not aware of. > Can someone please help me understanding this. > > I hope I have provided all necessary ressources, including the Pruning job. > > Cheers, > J/C > > > Job { > Name = "Pruning" > Description = "Prune all expired volumes" > Type = "Admin" > Schedule = "EveryNight" > JobDefs = "default-tier1" > PruneJobs = yes > PruneFiles = yes > PruneVolumes = yes > Enabled = yes > Runscript { > RunsWhen = "Before" > RunsOnClient = no > Console = "prune expired volume yes" > } > Priority = 15 > AllowDuplicateJobs = no > } > > JobDefs { > Name = "default-tier1" > Description = "Default backup job for Tier 1" > Type = "Backup" > Level = "Full" > Messages = "Standard" > Pool = "tier1-long" > FullBackupPool = "tier1-long" > IncrementalBackupPool = "tier1-short" > Client = “filer-fd" > Fileset = "EmptyFileset" > WriteBootstrap = "/disaster-recovery/bootstrap/%c_%n.bsr" > MaxFullInterval = 2678400 > SpoolAttributes = no > Priority = 20 > AllowMixedPriority = yes > AllowIncompleteJobs = no > Accurate = yes > AllowDuplicateJobs = no > } > > Schedule { > Name = "EveryNight" > Run = at 22:00 > } > > Job { > Name = "catalog-tier1" > Description = "Backup Bacula MyCatalog to Tier 1 storage" > Pool = "tier1-long" > FullBackupPool = "tier1-long" > Fileset = "Catalog" > Schedule = "EveryNight-Full" > JobDefs = "various-tier1" > Enabled = yes > Runscript { > RunsWhen = "Before" > RunsOnClient = no > Command = "/opt/bacula/scripts/make_catalog_backup.pl MyCatalog" > } > Runscript { > RunsWhen = "After" > FailJobOnError = no > RunsOnClient = no > Command = "/opt/bacula/scripts/delete_catalog_backup" > } > Runscript { > RunsWhen = "After" > FailJobOnError = no > RunsOnClient = no > Console = "purge volume action=all allpools storage=unraid-tier1-storage" > } > Priority = 50 > AllowIncompleteJobs = no > AllowDuplicateJobs = no > } > > JobDefs { > Name = "various-tier1" > Type = "Backup" > Level = "Full" > Messages = "Standard" > Pool = “tier1-long" > FullBackupPool = "tier1-long" > IncrementalBackupPool = "tier1-short" > Client = “filer-fd" > Fileset = "EmptyFileset" > Schedule = "Third-Sat-Full_Even-Incr" > WriteBootstrap = "/disaster-recovery/bootstrap/%c_%n.bsr" > Priority = 20 > AllowMixedPriority = yes > Accurate = yes > } > > Pool { > Name = "tier1-short" > PoolType = "Backup" > LabelFormat = "tier1-short-vol-" > ActionOnPurge = "Truncate" > MaximumVolumes = 500 > MaximumVolumeBytes = 20000000000 > VolumeRetention = 3456000 > NextPool = "tier2-short" > Storage = "tier1-storage" > ScratchPool = "Scratch" > Catalog = "MyCatalog" > FileRetention = 2592000 > JobRetention = 2592000 > } > > Pool { > Name = "tier1-long" > PoolType = "Backup" > LabelFormat = "tier1-long-vol-" > ActionOnPurge = "Truncate" > MaximumVolumes = 500 > MaximumVolumeBytes = 20000000000 > VolumeRetention = 8640000 > NextPool = "tier2-long" > Storage = "tier1-storage" > ScratchPool = "Scratch" > Catalog = "MyCatalog" > FileRetention = 7776000 > JobRetention = 7776000 > } > > Client { > Name = “filer-fd" > Address = "127.0.0.1" > FdPort = 9102 > Password = “redacted" > Catalog = "MyCatalog" > AutoPrune = yes > MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5 > } > > Client defaults are AutoPrune yes, JobRetention 180d, FileRetention 60d > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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