Thank you, it seems to be working. However, one backup job failed yesterday (disk problems) with retention of 2 days. I see that there is backup from 6 October to recover. Does this mean that Bareos doesn't apply Auto Prune when backup from particular day is missing?
piątek, 27 września 2024 o 16:33:08 UTC+2 Philipp Storz napisał(a): > Hello, > > Am 26.09.24 um 19:05 schrieb 'Michał Giza' via bareos-users: > > Thank you for your response. I understand that since the longest > retention period for backups in my > > config is 30 days, I should set Volume Retention option to 30. Is this a > correct assumption? > > The volume retention needs to be set to 30 days, 30 would be 30 seconds. > > > > > What if I wanted to set retention per client? Like 30 days for web > servers, and 7 days for develop > > environment. > > > You need to create a pool for data with similar retention periods, so a > pool "webservers" with a > retention of 30 days and a pool "develop" with a retention of 7 days. > > Then you need to make sure that the jobs doing the backups write into the > correct pool. > If you are using disk volumes, you probably want to configure "volume use > duration" to 23 hours so > that every day a new volume is created and after the volume retention has > passed a full volume can > be recycled. > > > > > czwartek, 26 września 2024 o 15:28:29 UTC+2 Philipp Storz napisał(a): > > > > Hello, > > > > instead of using these two deprecated directives, you should use the > autopuning in the pool > > directive to recycle your volumes together with the Volume retention > directives in the pool. > > > > See: > > > https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_AutoPrune > <https:// > > docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_AutoPrune> > > and: > > > https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_VolumeRetention > > <https:// > > > docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Pool_VolumeRetention > > > > > > Here you also have a description how it works. > > > > This mechanism will clean up your database when a volume is recycled; > all data that is recoverable > > will still be in the database. > > > > In case you need to change your pool's volume retention, do not forget > to apply the pool > > settings to > > all volumes in the pool via the command "update volumes" > > > > Best regards, > > > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > Am 26.09.24 um 14:12 schrieb 'Michał Giza' via bareos-users: > > > Hello, > > > Is there an alternative option for AutoPrune and JobRetention? Both > are deprecated (https:// > > > > docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Client_AutoPrune > <http:// > > docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Client_AutoPrune> > <https:// > > docs.bareos.org/ <https://docs.bareos.org/> > > > Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Client_AutoPrune>): > > > > > > Sep 26 12:54:04 bareos.local bareos-dir[91769]: * using deprecated > keyword JobRetention on > > line 9 > > > of file /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/client/web01-fd.conf > > > Sep 26 12:54:04 bareos.local bareos-dir[91769]: * using deprecated > keyword AutoPrune on line > > 10 of > > > file /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/client/web01-fd.conf > > > > > > I use them in every client's configuration. Example: > > > > > > /Client { > > > (...) > > > File Retention = 30 days > > > Job Retention = 6 months > > > AutoPrune = yes > > > }/ > > > / > > > / > > > File Retention works, meaning I cannot restore backups older than the > value set in this option. > > > However, it seems that the backups aren't being deleted from the disk, > as the disk usage still > > > increasing./ > > > / > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "bareos-users" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to bareos- > > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected] > >. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/ > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/> > > > bfc77e47-474f-4e55-92ef-84d6c3005d41n%40googlegroups.com < > http://40googlegroups.com> > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos- < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-> > > > users/bfc77e47-474f-4e55-92ef-84d6c3005d41n%40googlegroups.com? > > utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer < > http://40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>>. > > > > > > -- > > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > > > Philipp Storz [email protected] > > Bareos GmbH & Co. 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