On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 19:21, Rob Gerber <r...@craeon.net> wrote: > > You should be able to review the contents of an old bacula catalog dump to > find your missing file entries. Be careful not to restore the dump over top > of your current catalog. Just to be safe, it would be a good idea to take a > fresh catalog backup and restore it to a safe place before fooling around > with the catalog. > > To add to what Bill and Marcin have said: > > There are default file, job, and volume retention periods hardcoded into > bacula. I don't know what the defaults are, and I suspect that the manual is > inaccurate when it states the defaults. > If I recall correctly, the manual says > File retention: 90 days > Job retention: 180 days > Volume retention: 365 days.
Hello Everybody, For the file retention and pruning, Bill and Rob explained it very well. Thanks. I have two more words for the AutoPrune directive. By default it is enabled and in my opinion it has both advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that the user does not need to care about pruning because it is realized automatically. The disadvantage is that the default file and job retention values are a bit low (60 days for file records and 180 days for job records). If the user is not aware about it, he/she can be surprised that he/she is not able to restore selected files. For me, the default values could be a bit higher. It could help many users, specially beginning Bacula users, I think. Otherwise the AutoPrune = yes (default) can work like a hidden trap :-) ( the last sentence is a joke :-) ) Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
