Hello, On 12/4/2006 4:17 PM, Marcus Hallberg wrote: > Hi! > > I just wants to see if I have understood this correctly... I am backing > up to disk and I want to configure my retention times correctly. > > What I do is to take one fullbackup every 3 months and daily > incrementals in between.
You should consider running incrementals from time to time. > What I want is to be able to restore data that is three months old and > have bacula to recycle my volumes and prune my database. In the example > I have added one extra month to be on the safe side. That's a good idea. > configuration of the poolresource: > > recycle = yes > autoprune = yes > maximum volume jobs = 1 > volume retention = 7 (for fullbackups) > volume retention = 4 (for incremental) You NEED the time units, because you get what you set up - and without units, that's seconds. > > would this recycle my volumes (diskfiles) after the specified time and > remove the corresponding jobrecords from the database? Yes... > Am I missing something or am I good to go? ... but you should also verify your client related retention times. File Retention and Job Retention are the keywords you should look up. In your situation, I'd expect them to be both seven months long. Arno > /marcus > -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
