Hello,

Apologies if this question has been answered previously, but I'm struggling to 
find a definitive answer.

When a job completes and then marks a volume as purged, does it do this only 
for volumes in the pool used by that job and only if the job is successful, or 
are all volumes (regardless of pool and success of the job) affected?

I'm asking because sometimes a PC that I'm backing up isn't switched on and so 
the backup fails, however I believe files were removed from the catalogue 
making them more difficult to restore.

If purging only affects media in the pool, and only if the job completes 
successfully, then that's great--I can stick with correct retention periods.  
Otherwise I cannot see a way around this other than increasing the retention 
periods and hoping that the backups will run within that time.

I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 (yes--I should upgrade!) under 32-bit GNU/Linux with 
MySQL.  I'm backing up to files (20GB each) using grandfather, father, son with 
separate pools for each type (full, diff, incr) and for each client (three 
clients, so nine pools in total).

Many thanks for any help.

Graham
                                          
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