I am also not sure about upgrading from Simone Caronni's repo. If purging works fine than there is no need to break Bacula.
On 07-02-2013 16:08, Summers, James B. II wrote: > On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schm...@phoenixsoftware.de> > wrote: > >> Am 06.02.2013 04:19, schrieb Summers, James B. II: >>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schm...@phoenixsoftware.de> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Am 05.02.2013 18:09, schrieb Summers, James B. II: >>>>> I was looking at my backup email reports and keep seeing the following at >>>>> the end of each report: >>>>> >>>>> JobId 5968: Begin pruning Jobs older than 42 years 7 months 21 days 15 >>>>> hours 57 mins 50 sec. >>>>> JobId 5968: No Jobs found to prune. >>>>> >>>>> My understanding from the documentation is that the default job retention >>>>> is 180 days. But for some reason it is trying to only purge things older >>>>> than 42 years? >>>> I seem to remember that was a bug in some old version of Bacula. >>>> Which version are you using? >>> We are running 5.0.0-9 on a RHEL 6.3 machine. >> I'm quite happy with Simone Caronni's Bacula builds for RHEL from >> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/epel-6/x86_64/ . >> It's currently at release 5.2.12-7. >> >> Scanning through my old logs, I see I did get that same message >> back when I still ran 5.0.0. It disappeared after the upgrade to >> 5.2.6 in March 2012. >> > Before I actually do the upgrade, I was wondering, if it is just an erroneous > message and it actually is purging on the 180 day job retention? > > The reason I ask is last week I had reached a point where I needed to start > re-using old volumes. Which I was able to resolve by adjusting the Volume > retention time. But I think when I did that it also overrides the job and > file retention anyway, so it really was not a problem. > > I think I will use bconsole and see if I can determine if the job and file > retention times are being used as expected. > > Thanks Again > > > > >> -- >> Tilman Schmidt >> Phoenix Software GmbH >> Bonn, Germany >> > Jim Summers > University of Oklahoma > jsumm...@ou.edu > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users