Hello Justin, The problem is that you expect the Job doesn't get pruned from the Catalog (Job and File records deleted from the Bacula database) *before* the JobRetention value expires. If you have a lower VolumeRetention and the volume gets pruned by using "prune volume expired yes", your jobs will be pruned before the JobRetention value.
And when the volume gets pruned, volstatus=Purged, it can be potentially reused by Bacula or truncated and the job data in the volume gets deleted. This is why we usually recommend: JobRetention greater than or equal to VolumeRetention This guarantees that jobs get pruned only when JobRetention has expired. And your data is safe in the volume at least until JobRetention is reached. Best, Ana On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 12:23 AM Justin Case <jus7inc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Ana, > > I though about what you wrote and I am still wondering what would be the > problem if a volume gets purged before the contained jobs retentions > expire? This would remove the jobs and the corresponding files also from > the catalog, ok, but where is the problem? > I am Just trying to get a better understanding. > > Best > j/c > > On 30. Jan 2023, at 19:02, Ana Emília M. Arruda <emiliaarr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello Antonino, > > I'm not sure I've understood your question. What does you mean by > "CATALOGRETENTION"? > > There are only three retention values in Bacula: File, Job and Volume. I > strongly recommend you to set JobRetention less than or equal to > VolumeRetention to avoid the volume to be pruned before the Job Retention > has expired. > > Best, > Ana > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2023 at 11:26 AM Antonino Balsamo < > a.bals...@officinapixel.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have a shell script generating my bacula configs. >> >> Is there any enhancements, error or whatever in calculating the retention >> period as per below? >> >> (it is a no-recycle scenario) >> >> #days to keep records in months, min >> 1RETENTION=2FILERETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40)) >> VOLUMERETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+40)) >> JOBRETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+90)) >> CATALOGRETENTION=$(($RETENTION*30+90)) >> >> >> thanks >> >> Antonino >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users >> > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > >
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