Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:57:28 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Denny Schierz on <[Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful> were: => hi, => => I have just one question: => => One backup client is now offline

Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread John Drescher
> I believe if you do not want to keep the volumes containing the last > full around you could use a migration job to migrate the last full > backup to some other volume that does not recycle. Also remember that even with disk volumes bacula can only recycle an entire volume at a time so if bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Denny Schierz wrote: > > Am 25.03.2013 um 12:29 schrieb John Drescher : > >> Bacula does not support this directly. You can however figure out what >> volumes contain the last backup and turn off recycling for those >> volumes. > > thanks for the reply. In this cas

Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread Denny Schierz
Am 25.03.2013 um 12:29 schrieb John Drescher : > Bacula does not support this directly. You can however figure out what > volumes contain the last backup and turn off recycling for those > volumes. thanks for the reply. In this case, I have a problem. The (disk) volumes are used for other clien

Re: [Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread John Drescher
> One backup client is now offline so Bacula can't connect to the fd-client. > Does Bacula keeps the last successful backups, until the client comes back? > Or does the purge command delete them, so that I don't have any complete > backup anymore in a few weeks? > Bacula does not support this d

[Bacula-users] Question: Keep last backups, if next backups aren't successful

2013-03-25 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, I have just one question: One backup client is now offline so Bacula can't connect to the fd-client. Does Bacula keeps the last successful backups, until the client comes back? Or does the purge command delete them, so that I don't have any complete backup anymore in a few weeks? cu denny