> File Retention = 30 days
> Job Retention = 6 months
> Volume Retention = 1 year
>
Fine. After 30 days you will either only be able to do a full restore
or have to use bscan before restoring.
>
> Then am I correct in thinking that when I back up my catalog, I should only
> keep it for 6 months?

Most likely a lot shorter than that. The point is you want to do a
catalog backup daily to protect you from database corruption or loss.
I am sure you will spot a problem before 6 months elapses. The longest
I have gone back was 1 week.

>My thinking being that the catalog itself contains 6
> months of Job records and is 6 months old, so keeping it for any longer is
> meaningless.
>
> Also, is it bad practice to store the catalog backups along with the
> filesystem backups themselves?
>
I put that on a different server / array than the database.

John

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