Hello Rob, On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 at 20:24, Rob Gerber <r...@craeon.net> wrote: > > Actually, thinking about it, I think another positive change would be to > place the default retention values in the the configuration files (even > though the defaults will be in effect without any entry in the configuration > files). I initially mistakenly believed that by not defining retention > values, things would be retained forever. > > I also think hardcoding the default file and job retention periods to be the > same value (unless specified differently in the configuration file) could be > positive. I think only power users with many files need lower file retention > values than job / volume retention, and bacula beginners don't need to worry > about it. Making the values the same would help those beginners, and the > power users with advanced needs can still make the changes they need.
Great. That makes sense. This also takes into account two groups of users: beginners and power users and also other two groups : users with big data (many files) and users with small data (average or small number of files). It might be also worth considering the relation between all above groups. - users with big data (many files) - I estimate that here can be more power users than beginners - users with small data (average or small number of files) - I guess here can be both beginners and power users (There can be also more intermediate groups, of course, but I used these two groups for better contrast) If it is true that users with small data are more than users with big data, then providing default configuration adapted for small data users can be much better than providing default configuration for big data users. And what is important and what you already wrote - this will help beginners. Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
