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Hi all,
we've been relying on Bacula for quite a while now and are very
satisfied users. However, I just noticed a strangeness with regard to
Job Retention on 1.38.9:
It appears to be obeyed only for our differential backup jobs, _not_ for
the full backups. Specifically, we set common retention periods for the
the client (there's only one in this setup) as:
# Client (File Services) to backup
Client {
Name = erebor-fd
Address = localhost
FDPort = 9102
Catalog = MyCatalog
Password = secret
File Retention = 60 days
Job Retention = 5 years
AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired Jobs/Files
}
and then have two backup jobs for that client (each consisting of either
a full or differential backupd, followed by a full backup of the catalog:
Schedule {
Name = "WeeklyCycle"
Run = Level=Full Pool=MonthlyTapePool 1st sun at 4:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=SundayTapePool 2nd-5th sun at 4:05
Run = Level=Differential Pool=ThursdayTapePool thu at 4:05
}
# This schedule does the catalog. It starts after the WeeklyCycle
Schedule {
Name = "WeeklyCycleAfterBackup"
Run = Level=Full Pool=MonthlyTapePool 1st sun at 4:10
Run = Level=Full Pool=SundayTapePool 2nd-5th sun at 4:10
Run = Level=Full Pool=ThursdayTapePool thu at 4:10
}
However, when I look at the list of jobs using `list jobs`, only older
Differential jobs (from the Sunday and Thursday pools) are listed, e.g., as
| 7 | DefaultBackup | 2005-09-08 04:05:02 | B | D |
109705 | 4215201717 | T |
| 8 | BackupCatalog | 2005-09-08 04:16:54 | B | F | 1
| 309270413 | T |
starting in September 2005. The earliest full backup (Monthly) backup is
| 279 | DefaultBackup | 2006-12-03 04:05:04 | B | F |
2950669 | 88924511321 | T |
| 280 | BackupCatalog | 2006-12-03 10:49:32 | B | F | 1
| 1667026066 | T |
thus, December 2006. What happened to all of the other Full backups in
the meantime (which were definitely written to the tapes)?
At a glance, it appears that the Job Retention time appeared to ``take''
only for the Differentials, and that the Full backups use the default of
180 days.
Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong here?
Many thanks,
Andreas Koch
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