--On Montag, 4. Dezember 2006 16:17 +0100 Marcus Hallberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > 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. > consider using a shorter full interval. 3 months full backups will give you roughly 90 incremental backups. If you loose one of these backups you might end up loosing data 3 month old (in the worst case). You might also want to read the thread "Incremental backup, not accurate?" for other reasons why a long period of only incremental backups is possibly not a good idea. You can find the posts here: http://gmane.org/ Regards, Georg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
