On Aug 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Heitor Faria <hei...@bacula.com.br> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 9:27 PM, Jeff MacDonald <j...@terida.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Hi Jeff! > > I have a backup job that uses a Pool of 100 5 gig files. Job and File > retention are set to 10 years. Vol retention set to 70 days. > > 100 files have been filled and the oldest file is 23 days old. > > Right now bacula is attempting to prune the oldest volume. As I understand > things.. this will not result in any thing actually being pruned from that > volume and essentially my db is just going to spin and move onto the next > volume until I add new ones for it to use. Am I correct? > > I think it's correct, unless have configured the "Purge Oldest Volume = yes”. Purge Oldest Volume = yes… just sounds evil :) Like it can override any and all retention periods. I don’t want that :) > > And if so. I’m taking suggestions on how to handle this smarter. > > I think this is smart. You just need to have more volumes in order to meet > your 70 days volume retention needs, or decrease the volue retention period. > The volume retention its the time frame within your data should not be > recycle. Thats what Bacula is doing. > > I guess I should add that I have AutoPrune On. I guess if that was off, then > the job would instead wait until I increased the amount of volumes allowed in > the pool instead of going into this foolish loop? > > With Autoprune = off i think the behavior would be the same at this point. Would it? If that was off… I would think that the director would just wait until either i labeled a new volume, or told it to prune one? > > Cheers. > > > Jeff. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > > > > -- > ============================================ > Heitor Medrado de Faria | Need Bacula training? 10% discount coupon code at > Udemy: bacula-users > +55 61 2021-8260 > +55 61 8268-4220 > Site: www.bacula.com.br > Facebook: heitor.faria > Gtalk: heitorfa...@gmail.com > ============================================
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