Thanks for clarifying this, Ana,
so if I wanted my tier 1 storage to keep backups for 60 days, and my tier 2
storage to keep backups for 120 days, would it be the best to set the retention
periods as follows in the different resources:?
• client resources:
• file retention: 60
•
Hello Justin,
Sorry for the confusion!
You are right, we recommend that *VolumeRetention is greater than or equal
to JobRetention".
So, the Volume will never get pruned before the Job Retention has expired.
Hope it is clear now.
Best,
Ana
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:43 AM Justin Case wrote:
>
Hi Ana, see below
> On 31. Jan 2023, at 10:16, Ana Emília M. Arruda
> wrote:
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> The problem is that you expect the Job doesn't get pruned from the Catalog
> (Job and File records deleted from the Bacula database) *before* the
> JobRetention value expires.
> If you have a l
Hello Justin,
The problem is that you expect the Job doesn't get pruned from the Catalog
(Job and File records deleted from the Bacula database) *before* the
JobRetention value expires.
If you have a lower VolumeRetention and the volume gets pruned by using
"prune volume expired yes", your jobs wi
Hello Ana,
I though about what you wrote and I am still wondering what would be the
problem if a volume gets purged before the contained jobs retentions expire?
This would remove the jobs and the corresponding files also from the catalog,
ok, but where is the problem?
I am Just trying to get a
Hello Antonino,
Please note that Job, File and Volume retention values are related to
"Catalog stuff". They are the retention of the Jobs and File records in the
Catalog.
Bacula doesn't touch the data in the volumes unless the volume gets reused
or truncated.
When you prune jobs, files or volumes,
Thanks Ana and good spot.
CATALOGRETENTION is the value I use for all catalog related stuff (job,
file and volume), maybe is redundant...
Updated calc:
RETENTION=2 FILERETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40))
VOLUMERETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40))
JOBRETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40))
CATALOGRETENTION=$((
Hello Antonino,
I'm not sure I've understood your question. What does you mean by
"CATALOGRETENTION"?
There are only three retention values in Bacula: File, Job and Volume. I
strongly recommend you to set JobRetention less than or equal to
VolumeRetention to avoid the volume to be pruned before t
Hello,
I have a shell script generating my bacula configs.
Is there any enhancements, error or whatever in calculating the
retention period as per below?
(it is a no-recycle scenario)
#days to keep records in months, min 1 RETENTION=2
FILERETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40))
VOLUMERETENTION=$(($
Hello Ken
You must change the "Volume Retention" in the Pool Resource.
And after that is necessary to run the command "update" in the bconsole to
apply the changes vor volumes previously written.
*update
1: Volume parameters
14: All Volumes from all Pools
Best regards
*Wanderlei Hüttel*
Em t
I'm using files for Volumes, not tapes. Originally I was doing 90 day
retention, but since then the amount of data to backup has increased,
and I don't want to commit more file volumes (I have 13 *50G ). The
backups stop when the files are full and the soonest expiration date
hasn't been reache
Volume’ option will be sure they are recycled first.
I hope that helps.
Jim Richardson
From: sachin.holikar [mailto:sachin.holi...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 8:18 AM
To: Wanderlei Huttel
Cc: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Period not
Thanx for the Response. Here is the Output. and the Directory listing is
correct.
*restore jobid=2440
Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
You have selected the following JobId: 2440
Building directory tree for JobId(s) 2440 ...
+
Hello Sachin
Try to restore jobid=2440 until the screen to confirm and post all
information in the screen (since the begin)
Regards
*Wanderlei Hüttel*
http://www.huttel.com.br
2017-08-30 9:40 GMT-03:00 sachin.holikar :
> Hello Expert,
>
> We have been using Bacula Version: 7.4.0.
> Recently we
Hello Expert,
We have been using Bacula Version: 7.4.0.
Recently we introduced Offsite backup pool with N no. of tapes. The
retention periods are as follows,
File Retention : 92 Days
Job Retention : 92 Days
Volume Retention : 365 Days
Every month we take offsite backup and the respective tapes mov
Yes, I understand that. But for such setup like recycling the same tape
every night, and if the backup takes several hours to complete, the hours
calculation is pretty important.
On 2 Jan 2017 17:32, "Radosław Korzeniewski"
wrote:
Hello,
2016-12-29 8:10 GMT+01:00 Gi Dot :
> Hello,
>
> I have a
Hello,
2016-12-29 8:10 GMT+01:00 Gi Dot :
> Hello,
>
> I have always calculated my volume retention period based on its last
> written date, and time. This means when I want to plan for a new
> configuration, I will consider how long it takes for the backup to complete
> - say if it takes 2 hours
The one day retention period was just an example. Plus, the 'use volume
once' directive works if I have only one job to run daily, which is not the
case. Say if I need bacula to recycle the same volume on weekend, I'd
resort to using "volume use duration" directive, with retention period just
a few
On Dec 29, 2016, at 2:10 AM, Gi Dot wrote:Hello,I have always calculated my volume retention period based on its last written date, and time. This means when I want to plan for a new configuration, I will consider how long it takes for the backup to complete - say if it takes 2 hours to complete a
Hello,
I have always calculated my volume retention period based on its last
written date, and time. This means when I want to plan for a new
configuration, I will consider how long it takes for the backup to complete
- say if it takes 2 hours to complete and I need a retention period of 1
day, I
Hello
2016-08-30 4:32 GMT-03:00 sachin.holikar :
> Hello Community,
>
>
>
> I have a question regarding Bacula retention period.
>
> We have bacula Server 7.4.0 installed on SLES 12.
>
>
>
> We wish to take weekly incremental backup of a client (ClientA) and then
> Full Backup over the weekend.
Hello Community,
I have a question regarding Bacula retention period.
We have bacula Server 7.4.0 installed on SLES 12.
We wish to take weekly incremental backup of a client (ClientA) and then
Full Backup over the weekend.
Weekly incremental backup , we would like to keep for 1 month.
We
Hello Community,
I have a question regarding Bacula retention period.
We have bacula Server 7.4.0 installed on SLES 12.
We wish to take weekly incremental backup of a client (ClientA) and then Full
Backup over the weekend.
Weekly incremental backup , we would like to keep for 1 month.
Wee
Hi,
Just to make sure I've got this correct: Bacula does a simple calculation
when parsing retention config options such as month=30 days*24 hours*60
minutes*60 seconds everywhere.
An example:
maximum volumes=3 (per pool)
volume use duration=1 month
volume retention=5 weeks
file retention=2
I think I'm having an issue with how Bacula handles retention periods
and volume recycling.
What I need to do:
I have several machines that need to be backed up. Most of these
machines have multiple filesystems. Most of these filesystems we only
need to retain a backup for one month, but a few o
Hi,
I have some diffuculty to understand the meaning of file, job and volume
retention... i have read the manual but there is some trouble points. In
fact i have one goal : backup 40 clients in a 1,1 To raid5.
I would like to conserve just one week of history for every client. So
could i put file,
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