Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2024-01-29 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, pon., 29 sty 2024 o 05:38 Rob Gerber napisał(a): > Radosław, thank you for your reply! Useful information. > > Regarding virtual full backups, because I am backing up via my single SAS > LTO8 drive, and because making a copy job requires an input device and an > output device, the informa

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2024-01-28 Thread Rob Gerber
Radosław, thank you for your reply! Useful information. Regarding virtual full backups, because I am backing up via my single SAS LTO8 drive, and because making a copy job requires an input device and an output device, the information you shared leads me to expect that I am unable to do virtual fu

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2024-01-27 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
Hello, wt., 7 lis 2023 o 21:57 Rob Gerber napisał(a): > To update this thread, I ultimately was able to avoid a bscan of all my > backed up media by restoring a backup of my catalog database. I have set > file, job, and volume retention to 1000 years. > Volume retention for 1000Y means you will

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2023-11-07 Thread Rob Gerber
To update this thread, I ultimately was able to avoid a bscan of all my backed up media by restoring a backup of my catalog database. I have set file, job, and volume retention to 1000 years. Does a virtual full job strategy eliminate information about changed files? ie, if the full backup capture

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2023-08-18 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 8/18/23 17:24, Rob Gerber wrote: verification jobs. My guess is that bacula purged job records for some reason, possibly because they were older than 6 months. I have volume retention set to 1000 years, but maybe I need to add something for job retention? There are three retention periods

[Bacula-users] Bacula purges old jobs and I don't want it to do that

2023-08-18 Thread Rob Gerber
Hello, Bacula purged job records for some backup jobs I did a while ago. I don't want it to do that, and I want to restore the old records. When I went into baculum to briefly run a backup job to check for any new files, I was informed that there was no full backup on record, and that as such a ne