File records, together with a table specifying which files are in which
job, tell you which jobs you need to restore particular file if you want
to do a selective restore. I don't think I tried that but I suppose even
in case of a full restore you might not need every incremental you did
after the last full if only certain sets of files was updated regularly
and it was "overwritten" in subsequen Incremental backups so File
records should also tell you in such case that you only need the full
job and - for example - last incremental, not all previous ones.
But also - as you noticed - they keep metadata so that system can decide
whether the file is a candidate for backup or not.
MK
On 8.11.2023 22:45, 'Chad W Seys' via bareos-users wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a bit confused as to the purpose and use of File Records in the bareos
catalog. According to the documentation, Job Records alone are needed to
(easily) restore files.
I imagine the File Record stores metadata about the file at specific points in
time? So maybe needed for making the next incremental backup, but otherwise
what would the File Record be used for? (Practically wondering how long to
retain them.)
Thanks!
C.
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