Thanks for clarifying this, Ana,
so if I wanted my tier 1 storage to keep backups for 60 days, and my tier 2
storage to keep backups for 120 days, would it be the best to set the retention
periods as follows in the different resources:?
• client resources:
• file retention: 60
• job retention: 60
• tier1 pool resources:
• volume retention 70
• tier 2 pool resources:
• file retention 120
• job retention 120
• volume retention 130
Or what else would you propose?
Thank you for your time and effort!
j/c
> On 31. Jan 2023, at 10:56, Ana Emília M. Arruda <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Justin,
>
> Sorry for the confusion!
> You are right, we recommend that *VolumeRetention is greater than or equal to
> JobRetention".
>
> So, the Volume will never get pruned before the Job Retention has expired.
>
> Hope it is clear now.
>
> Best,
> Ana
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 10:43 AM Justin Case <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ana, see below
>
>> On 31. Jan 2023, at 10:16, Ana Emília M. Arruda <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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
>
> In your earlier mail you recommended the opposite:
>
>
>> On 30. Jan 2023, at 19:02, Ana Emília M. Arruda <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
>
> Which is preferred?
>
>
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