On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:21 PM, sporkman <spork AT bway DOT net> wrote:
>
>
>  On Sat 03 May 2008 16:03, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>  >> I recently noticed that two of my monthly tapes were purged, and I'm
>  >> trying to figure out why.
>  >>
>  >> My pool definition:
>  >>
>  >> Pool {
>  >>    Name = Monthly
>  >>    Pool Type = Backup
>  >>    Recycle = no                        # Bacula can automatically recycle
>  >> Volumes
>  >>    AutoPrune = yes                   # Prune expired volumes
>  >>    Volume Retention =  2 years
>  >>    Volume Use Duration = 1 month
>  >>    Maximum Volumes = 12
>  >>    LabelFormat = "Monthly"
>  >> }
>  >>
>  >> I was looking at the Volume recycling docs here:
>  >>
>  >> 
> http://bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.h
>  >>tml
>  >>
>  >> And it seems like these volumes should not be pruned until the Volume
>  >> Retention period is met.
>  >>
>
>
> > Yes, the default file retention period is 60 days and the default job
>  > retention is 180 days. Auto pruning operates on files, jobs & volumes. It
>  > would appear that all of the files and jobs related to these volumes had
>  > been
>  > pruned from your catalog. Once they all were pruned the volumes were
>  > marked
>  > as purged.
>
>  That contradicts the documentation though...
>
>>From the way I read it there is no contradiction.
>
>  "The Volume Retention period takes precedence over any Job Retention period
>  you have specified in the Client resource."
>
>  In other words, Volume Retention is the only thing that counts, right?
>
No. I believe it means that if Volume Retention is less than file or
job retention then the volume could still  be pruned instead of having
to wait for the other two retention periods.

John

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