If I understand this correctly, you need to set up daily, week, and
monthly pools. each pool can have its own retention periods.
Lonny Selinger wrote:
>> On Wednesday 28 March 2007 16:59, Lonny Selinger wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any way to specify job and file retention based on job or schedule
>>> rather than client? Just wondering what options in the hashes are viable in
>>> other hashes if any. I've created daily, weekly, and monthly jobs and for
>>>
>> each
>>
>>> I would like to have different retention periods.
>>>
>>> By creating different pools and assining to specific volumes, I've already
>>> taken into account that some images may expire before others appended to
>>>
>> media
>>
>>> but i think I've got that part set up right (and I'm using two drives so I
>>>
>> can
>>
>>> write the longer retention fulls to a different drive than the daily and
>>> weekly ones which I would expire accordingly).
>>>
>>> Is this possible or is there maybe another method for assigning retention
>>> periods to jobs or schedules?
>>>
>> See "update volume"
>>
>>
>
> Ok maybe I'm just not understanding :) ... a retention period can be set on a
> volume or volumes (or run using update volume). I don't want to recycle the
> volumes however, I'd like the jobs to keep appending until the tape/volume is
> full. What I'm wondering is if the File and Job Retention setting assigned to
> the client can be non client specific but schedule or job specific. If
> assigned to a volume it would overwrite the client setting from my
> understanding but I'd rather not assign it to a volume or volumes (which may
> just not be possible OR maybe there's a better way of doing it using Bacula).
>
> Here's a scinario:
>
> JobDefs {
> Name = "BRT_Daily"
> Type = Backup
> Level = Incremental
> Client = amanda-fd
> FileSet = "Full"
> Schedule = "DailyCycle"
> Storage = DLT7000a
> Messages = Standard
> Pool = Default
> Priority = 10
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "Daily"
> JobDefs = "BRT_Daily"
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/bacula/working/daily.bsr"
> }
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "DailyCycle"
> Run = Incremental mon-sat at 23:05
> }
>
> Client {
> Name = amanda-fd
> Address = amanda
> FDPort = 9102
> Catalog = MyCatalog
> Password = "password"
> File Retention = 30 days
> Job Retention = 6 months
> AutoPrune = yes
> }
>
> Just using these as a template, I'd like to specify that every "Daily" backup
> has a file retention of 7 days and a job retention of one month no matter what
> client it's backing up for or (for now) what media it's writing too.
>
> On the same policy (or manner of thinking), I'd like to have this client also
> be able to do a weekly full but have that job have a file retention of one
> month and job retention of 6 months without any restrictions on volume or
> media or schedule. I could have the volumes cycle, but all the backups (even
> ones with higher retention periods I may have wanted to keep) would be gone.
>
> The plan was to keep lower retention backups on different media than higher
> retention ones knowing there would be come crossover and sparatic wasted space
> but I could restore from specific points in time a little better: IE recover a
> specific revision of a file based on date.
>
> Meh ... maybe I'm just making this more complicated or harder than it has to
> be, I'm just going off of experience from other commercial software (Veritas
> Netbackup) and how schedules, policies, pools, and types differ and seeing if
> there's a way I can emulate it in Bacula.
>
> Either way thanks for the pointer Kern!!
>
> --
> Lonny
>
>
>
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