> > Thanks for the help provided so far, it's very much appreciated. I do have > a few follow-up questions: > > > In a case where the client's storage pool
Pools don't belong to a client unless you set up the directors schedules that way and don't run any manually to the pool. > would of reached it's maximum volume limit (I use this combined with maximum > volume bytes to control the size of their allocated storage pools) and > recycle oldest volume would be equal to yes... If all the jobs have already > passed their retention period, bacula would recycle the oldest volume if recycle oldest is set yes. If you also set purge oldest, then it will purge the jobs as well > regardless of the volume retention period, recycle oldest respects retention of files and jobs. > is this correct (on what date is this based btw, the date of the last written > job?) I think first written, not totally sure > And that, as long as the volume wasn't recycled/overwritten, there's always > possibility to use bscan, re-write the catalogue and restore file-by-file? > In a case where the file records have expired but not the job records, can I > simply decide to restore an entire jobid instead of using bscan? yes, restoring the entire job is always an option if the job record exists with purged files. > How about when a volume is purged? If the volume is purged, then there will be no knowledge of the job or where it is on the tape, so bscan would be required. > My understanding is, files can still be recovered, however in this case I'm > presuming using bscan isn't optional? bscan required is my understanding. Dirk > > > I think this should be the last of my question :) Bacula is pretty flexible. I had to read the pool directives, try some stuff for a bit, then read it again to fully appreciate what it took to get the results I wanted. Heck, I'm still not sure if I'm quite there yet. > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users