On 3/31/2011 10:02 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > Randy Katz wrote: > >> Alan, thank you for that answer and please excuse my questions: >> >> 1. Do you have a different expire time (60d) for your Full then your >> Incrementals or does it matter? > > I set the database file/job expire time to 100 years and simply roll > the media, but we do full/diff/incremental in the same pool. > > I did look at putting fulls in one pool and the rest in another but > decided this is more trouble than it's worth. > >> 2. Which parameter are you referring to? >> a. Full Expiration - Is it File Retention or Job Retention or both? > > Both > >> b. Expire Media - What parameter are you referring to? > > Volume expiry. > > When a volume is purged its file/job data is automatically erased from > the database anyway, with the effect being that we can restore any > version of any file from the backup tapes, up to the oldest Full > backup (and occasionally beyond). > > If your database size is too big to handle then job/file retention > could be shortened but I wouldn't do that if it can possibly be > avoided (memory is cheap, the added time to bscan or be forced to do a > full restore is not)
Well since I asked the question I have scripted a Pools.conf creation script for Full, Diff, and Incr for each Client to backup, removed the Pools from bacula-dir.conf and added an Include (@/etc/bacula/conf.d/pools.conf). It didn't take very long and if anything needs to change is trivial to reconfigure now. As for retaining a Full backup for so long, why is it so necessary if I have a Full being created every month with a 3 Volume Retention and a Time of 60d then there should never be a time when there is no Full before Diff/Incr's, right? If I wanted a 180 day cycle then would want to extend that to the incrementals and diffs as well, right? Regards, Randy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users