Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hi,
On 4/3/2007 11:31 AM, James Cort wrote:
Ryan Novosielski wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, if you prune the job, it will take the files with
it (as there will be nothing to restore from).
I think you may be.
I think Ryan is right :-)
You can find an explanation of the recycling algorithm in the manual:
Look at the sections explaining the Retention settings in the DIR
configuration.
Yes. As far as I can tell, I should never have had the problem I did in
the first place:
Note, even if all the File and Job records are pruned from a Volume,
the Volume will not be marked Purged until the Volume retention period
expires.
Given my original configuration, I'd have expected a bunch of volumes
which, while not recycled, were effectively "in limbo" as there would
have been no jobs or file records referencing them but they'd still have
been stuck on their volume retention. Therefore, I would have expected
Bacula to take a tape from the scratch pool. Particularly as the volume
it sat around waiting for wasn't in the autochanger.
Unless the volume retention information wasn't updated when the volumes
were moved to their relevant pool from the Scratch pool.
What you want sounds like setting the File and Job Retention to a longer
time than the Volume Retention period.
I prefer a Job Retention of 30 years in such a case, and limiting the
Volume retention to the actual time you want to keep your data.
AIUI, if, like me, you want to keep all the file/job data until the
volume itself is recycled, you'd suggest setting file and job retention
periods to be longer than the longest volume retention period.
I've done that. Guess all I can do now is wait and see a few months.
It will be interesting to see if the volumes in the Daily pool are still
recycled when I'd expect with a rather shorter Volume retention than
File/Job retention period.
Keep in mind that you have to update the existing volumes to reflect a
modified configuration!
Volumes, yes. But the volume retention period hasn't changed - it's the
file/job retention periods that are changing. I didn't think they
needed to be updated.
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