Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-20 01:19 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> Read >> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html >> >> 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the >> restore >> command will be unable to find a

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 13:14 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Read http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/main/main/Restore_Command.html > > 'If a Job's file records have been pruned from the catalog, the restore > command will be unable to find any files to restore. Bacula will ask if > you want to re

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-20 01:00 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > Good, we're getting somewhere. > > On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:45 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> Let's confirm this. Let's look at this job: > > {SQL stuff snipped} > > That is what I was eventually going to get around to doing, so thanks > for doing t

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Greg Woods
Good, we're getting somewhere. On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 11:45 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > Let's confirm this. Let's look at this job: {SQL stuff snipped} That is what I was eventually going to get around to doing, so thanks for doing that for me. So it looks like, if the same file is written to

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-20 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-19 04:18 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:38 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >> I set my FILE and JOB retentions high. 3 years. Then I set my VOLUME >> retention lower. Whichever retention period expires first, that's the >> one which counts. <== I will refer to that as

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 12:38 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > I set my FILE and JOB retentions high. 3 years. Then I set my VOLUME > retention lower. Whichever retention period expires first, that's the > one which counts. <== I will refer to that as 'first one counts' later > in this email. > >

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-19 12:06 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:02 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: >> There was a lot in the above and I couldn't parse it all >> just now. > > Sorry about that; I suppose it would help if I just explicitly stated > what I really want. I have a main backup pool wher

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Greg Woods
On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 11:02 -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > There was a lot in the above and I couldn't parse it all > just now. Sorry about that; I suppose it would help if I just explicitly stated what I really want. I have a main backup pool where all the backup jobs write. This pool is manually

Re: [Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-19 Thread Dan Langille
On 2013-12-17 03:00 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > There is some stuff I still don't understand here, and I'd like to > avoid > learning the hard way. For instance, I never realized that "File > Retention" referred to the individual file records in the database, not > to the actual files on backup. So I

[Bacula-users] question about how retention works

2013-12-17 Thread Greg Woods
There is some stuff I still don't understand here, and I'd like to avoid learning the hard way. For instance, I never realized that "File Retention" referred to the individual file records in the database, not to the actual files on backup. So I ended up losing many of my File records (learning the