Re: [Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hello James, >From what you say, my retention period is only going to be as long as the shortest Volume Retention I've specified in my pools. That is an astonishing bug I would have though, but doesn't seem to be exactly the case for me. Since I have disk volume pools with volume retention of onl

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread James Woodward
Hello Dermot, In the testing I've done I found that if I had one pool set to something ridiculous like 1 day then when the backup was written to that pool that retention period was applied to all copies of that particular job. As an example if I had a 3 pools with full backups being kept in a p

Re: [Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi James, Thanks for replying. If I understand you correctly, then I think that is what I'm doing. I have a very high File and Job retention on the clients resource (10 years), and a volume retention on the pools that I actually do want to use, e.g. 13 days, 60 days, 1 year, 10 years depending on t

[Bacula-users] Retention not being applied correctly

2011-03-22 Thread Dermot Beirne
Hi, I use Bacula 5.0.3 on ubuntu 9.04 I backup from a number of clients (windows and linux) to a disk raid and then migrate to tape afterwards. I am concerned that my retention is not working properly. This is my client config for one client: # Client (File Services) to backup Client { Name =