On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 23:08:38 +0200, Jérôme Blion <jerome.bl...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 07/04/2011 10:24, Jérôme Blion a écrit : >> Hello, >> >> That would mean there is no job retention. BackupCatalog jobs are pruned. >> So, we can have Job pruning before volume pruning. >> File, Job, Volume retentions are differents parameters. Volumes can only >> be automatically recycled if no more jobs references it. >> >> Best regards. >> Jerome Blion. >> >> >> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 22:04:24 -0300, Rodrigo Renie Braga >> <rodrigore...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> The jobs will only be pruned when their respective volumes are recycled >> or >>> purged... since the Volume Retention in your Pool is 3 days, that will >>> happen at the seventh day of running backups, when the second volume >>> expires >>> and Bacula recycles the first volume... >>> >>> >>> 2011/4/6 Jérôme Blion<jerome.bl...@free.fr> >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I'm setting a test infrastructure on Debian Squeeze. I'm using Debian >>>> packages (5.0.2). >>>> You can find various configuration files here: >>>> http://www.hebergement-pro.org/bacula/ >>>> >>>> I set: >>>> serveur:/home/www/www/bacula# grep Retention bacula-dir.conf.txt >>>> File Retention = 3 days >>>> Job Retention = 3 days >>>> Volume Retention = 3 days >>>> Volume Retention = 3 days >>>> File Retention = 3 days >>>> >>>> When I list jobs, I can see jobs which should have expired. Catalog >>>> backups >>>> are correctly pruned but other ones are not. >>>> Here are some outputs: >>>> >> http://www.hebergement-pro.org/bacula/output.txt<http://www.hebergement-pro.org/bacula/joblist.txt> >>>> Files backed up during these jobs cannot be listed with "list files >>>> jobid=35". I can restore the whole job successfully (as the volume has >>>> not >>>> been recycled yet) >>>> When I perform a show job=Backup_Serveur (or anyone else), I have the >>>> following strange line: JobRetention=0 secs FileRetention=11 months 16 >>>> days >>>> 4 hours 46 mins 48 secs >>>> I never set it up such retentions. What is that File Retention ? I >> don't >>>> understand it. >>>> >>>> By the past, I modified retention period. How does the pruning work ? >> is >>>> the expiration date stored into the database ? I didn't find it. >>>> How could I identify what is wrong in my setup ? >>>> >>>> Best regards. >>>> Jerome Blion. > > Hello, > > Sorry for the message on top... > To give you new inputs: > > 07-Apr 23:05 vm10-bacula-dir JobId 77: Begin pruning Jobs older than 3 > days . > 07-Apr 23:05 vm10-bacula-dir JobId 77: No Jobs found to prune. > 07-Apr 23:05 vm10-bacula-dir JobId 77: Begin pruning Jobs. > 07-Apr 23:05 vm10-bacula-dir JobId 77: Pruned Files from 2 Jobs for > client serveur-fd from catalog. > 07-Apr 23:05 vm10-bacula-dir JobId 77: End auto prune. > > Why jobs are not pruned by the system, whereas files are ? > They should be cleaned together. > > Best regards. > Jerome Blion. Hello,
I totally reinstalled the bacula server. I modified all retentions before starting it. Now, files, jobs and volumes are pruned according to my directives. I think the retention period is stored into the database... I just don't know where. HTH. Jérôme Blion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
