>>>>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:12:19 +0100, Geir Asle Borgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> said:
Geir> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 19:52 +0000, Martin Simmons wrote: >> >>>>> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 11:12:30 +0100, Geir Asle Borgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Geir> If I have understod it right will the volume be purged/deleted before Geir> the retention time for files, jobs and volume stored on the specific Geir> volume. And to restore files you need both the volume (where the files Geir> are stored) and the job info (stored in the database, not on the Geir> volume). Geir> My problem is the backupstrategi we use here. We take incremental backup Geir> to disk every working day, but once a month we take full backup to tape. Geir> So fare, all is good. BUT we have all the 12 month-tapes stored for a Geir> year, and we also have a year-tape who is stored for all future. The Geir> consequence of this is that I have to set job retention to something Geir> like "for all times"!?! Geir> Most restores are done on files lost less the a month ago ... but form Geir> time to time I have to go to tape and get older files. But if job Geir> retention is set to never expire all files will be stored on disk as Geir> well for all time ... and I will run out of diskspace. Geir> Is there some things I can do to be able to restore files older then one Geir> month (form tape, but not loos the job-info stored in the database)? Geir> Will deleting `rm VolumeXX` from the disk and setting job retention to Geir> 99 years do the trick? Or will that just F****P everything? >> Have you considered setting the Volume Retention for the disk volumes to >> something like 60 days? That will override the longer Job Retention and allow >> the disk volumes to be recycled. Geir> Yes, I have considered that, but is that the way it work? Does Volume Geir> Retention override Job Retention? Yes (and the File Retention). The manual describes this in more detail. Note: if you change the Volume Retention in the Pool resource, then you'll need to update the value in the catalog for all the existing volumes in that Pool. __Martin ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
