[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-25 Thread teksupptom
Thanks for the suggestions Dirk. I was afraid that it would come down to scripting; being a temp Student admin I'm trying to keep things as straightforward as possible for the next person who has to deal with it. I was hoping I had missed something and that the Job resource could also set the

[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-24 Thread teksupptom
Greetings! Is there any way, in Bacula 2.4.4, to override the File and/or Job retention period in either the Job, Schedule, or FileSet resource? The reason I ask is that we have a couple of filesets that are extremely large, but only on a handful of clients. We don't have the space to restore

[Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-24 Thread teksupptom
Trying to work around the file/job retention question above, is it possible to set up multiple Client resources for a single client machine, without running multiple file daemons on the client? The way I read the manual, the name given to the client file daemon is what needs to be used for

Re: [Bacula-users] Overriding Job and/or File Retention Periods?

2009-06-24 Thread Dirk Bartley
If your serious about it, you could always script your way out of it. Set the file and job retention to the higher of the two desired values, then conjure up an sql statment that select the jobs that you want to have the lower retention periods and purge the records desired in a script. You