Randy Katz wrote: > Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: > > 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your > Incrementals or does it matter?
I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but decided this is more trouble than it's worth. > 2. Which parameter are you referring to? > a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? Both > b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? Volume expiry. When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full backup (and occasionally beyond). If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a full restore is not) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
