On Thursday 23 October 2008, Dan Langille said something like: > FYI > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: LeJav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: October 23, 2008 4:10:25 AM EDT > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Bacula-users] Unlimited Retention > > > > Hello, > > > > Here is my problem: I want to backup my system with normal strategy > > (full every week, incremental, retention....), but I have also > > data on > > this server that I want to archive indefinitely (without > > retention). To do that, i declared first retention period for this > > job as 100 years. > > But it did not work. > > Investigating in source code, I found that: > > > > ua_prune.c > > ... > > period = client->FileRetention; > > now = (utime_t)time(NULL); > > > > /* Select Jobs -- for counting */ > > Mmsg(query, count_select_job, edit_uint64(now - period, ed1), > > edit_int64(cr.ClientId, ed2)); > > Dmsg3(050, "select now=%u period=%u sql=%s\n", (uint32_t)now, > > (uint32_t)period, query.c_str()); > > ... > > > > and : time() returns the time since the Epoch (00:00:00 UTC, > > January 1, 1970), measured in seconds. > > for instance, today, now = 1224742378 = 38.8 years > > this means that if i set a retention > 39 years, now-period will be > > negative, > > and then a very very big number in unsigned int64, so jobs will be > > always pruned
That's funny...that must be the exact but I was hitting while trying to set my retention to 100 years. Thanks for finding this! I too have turned off auto-pruning. :) j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0xDB26D7CE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
