Re: [Bacula-users] Very long retention time

2024-08-14 Thread Martin Simmons
I have archival backups going back 10 years without any problems. If you want to be able to restore any single file from the backup, then you need to explicitly configure File Retention and Job Retention in the Client resource, because they default to 60 and 180 days respectively. I've set them b

Re: [Bacula-users] Very long retention time

2024-08-14 Thread Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users
On 2024-08-14 14:21, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: Thanx for the response, appreciate it As to media, plan is to put it on disk, with some sort of raid(1, 5, 6) to ensure safety/integrity, that is where the files are right now as to the amount of data, it is not that huge, weekly full backups is a

Re: [Bacula-users] Very long retention time

2024-08-14 Thread Mehrdad Ravanbod
Thanx for the response, appreciate it As to media, plan is to put it on disk, with some sort of raid(1, 5, 6) to ensure safety/integrity, that is where the files are right now as to the amount of data, it is not that huge, weekly full backups is around 50 GB, and it lends it self well to comp

Re: [Bacula-users] Very long retention time

2024-08-14 Thread Gary R. Schmidt
On 14/08/2024 16:19, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: hello everyone I need to set up backups for a set of files that need to be saved and be possible to access for a very long time(approx. 10 years, for compliance reasons), is this possible in Bacula or even advisable?? Or do we need to solve this s