Hello Stefan, On Tue, 24 Jun 2025 at 14:19, Stefan G. Weichinger <li...@xunil.at> wrote: > > This is the way how automatic pruning works. To make it working in the > > way as you described and as you expected, you can disable automatic > > pruning: > > > > AutoPrune = no > > > > Then the file and job records will not be pruned automatically (and > > the database size can be bigger). They will be pruned in the volume > > recycling cycle or if you run prune job or file records manually by > > Bconsole command. > > ok ... so I don't have anything wrong that triggered that (?)
I don't know because we don't see your pruning settings in the Director configuration. > I still don't fully get it: > > the volumes are in mode "Archive", so they should NOT yet been > overwritten (in fact they aren't: they are stored off-site). > > And even then the related "file lists" in the database are pruned? This depends on your pruning setting, specially on the AutoPrune setting (and job/file retention directives as well). > That's really new to me. Sure. I think that many users are not aware of that until they read about it or until they try to restore and find no files to select for restoring. This is also well described in the Bacula documentation: "As Bacula writes files to a Volume, it keeps a list of files, jobs, and volumes in a database called the catalog. Among other things, the database helps Bacula to decide which files to back up in an incremental or differential backup, and helps you locate files on past backups when you want to restore something. However, the catalog will grow larger and larger as time goes on, and eventually it can become unacceptably large. Bacula's process for removing entries from the catalog is called Pruning. The default is Automatic Pruning, which means that once a Job record reaches a certain age (e.g. 30 days old) and a pruning occurs, it will be removed from the catalog." https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION0031100000000000000000 Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
