Re: [Bacula-users] Retaining files indefinitely ?

2018-09-03 Thread Chris Wilkinson
My recollection is that Retrospect retains the last n >=1 versions for disk based backup. On the last point, to keep 1 latest copy (n=1), I could run a full job every m=30 days and set a volume retention time of 31 days? If a file were deleted or lost for whatever reason, then wouldn’t it be p

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Bill Arlofski
Sebastien, Hmmm, this is bringing back some memories.. A thread from a while back caused me to write a script to set/unset the "Enabled" field for volumes "not in changer" this was for someone from Greenpeace http://www.revpol.com/node/146 Take a look at this... "vchanger" is specificall

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 03.09.2018 um 21:15 schrieb Bill Arlofski: > > Assuming this is a tape library with barcode reader, Yes, it is. > you will need to let > Bacula know which tapes are in the library: > > * update slots storage= drive= > > Bacula honors the "InChanger" field for volumes when choosing

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Bill Arlofski
Assuming this is a tape library with barcode reader, you will need to let Bacula know which tapes are in the library: * update slots storage= drive= Bacula honors the "InChanger" field for volumes when choosing a volume. No need to set the status to used, or purge I think in Sebastian'

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Am 03.09.2018 um 19:54 schrieb Tilman Schmidt: > Am 03.09.2018 um 16:52 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: >> Hi everyone, >> >> last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup >> started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool, >> Bacula (v7.4.4) selected an em

Re: [Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 03.09.2018 um 16:52 schrieb Sebastian Suchanek: > Hi everyone, > > last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup > started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool, > Bacula (v7.4.4) selected an empty volume X, but since this was not in > the tapelibr

[Bacula-users] Changing volume of running job?

2018-09-03 Thread Sebastian Suchanek
Hi everyone, last night I encountered the following situation: a scheduled backup started, using a certain backup pool (a set of tapes). From that pool, Bacula (v7.4.4) selected an empty volume X, but since this was not in the tapelibrary, Bacula kept asking for it. (Since I was ~250km away, I cou

Re: [Bacula-users] Retaining files indefinitely ?

2018-09-03 Thread Martin Simmons
Does Retrospect actually retain the last version of every file indefinitely? Or does it retain the last version of every backup indefinitely? I suspect it is the latter. The difference is that you cannot restore a deleted file after the last backup that contained it has been deleted. It is easy