On 01/29/2010 08:12 AM, John Drescher wrote:
>> so i did read about these volume utilities and did use half of them during
>> my experience with bacula, however:
>> - using bscan into catalog (accoriding to doc's) scanned for a while, said
>> database updated, however running restore complain again about records are
>> being pruned (note my volumes are all set/marked as "used" the ones i am
>> trying to access)
>>
>>      
> Being marked as used should have nothing at all to do with the ability
> to restore data. Unless the volumes are getting pruned automatically.
>
>    
>> dbcheck seem to do lot's of clean up rather finding something that may have
>> been corrupt (which i think happen during upgrade)
>>
>> after all i did restore with regexp, but still would be cool to find a
>> solution as to where are the records from db.
>>
>> (i could and may, will do a clean 5.0 install or something and rescan all
>> tapes back if there are no work around in this area)
>>
>>      
> So you are using 5.0.0. There were several bugs found since its
> release. One weird one is on first run bacula says its pruning volumes
> that are around 40 years old.
>
>    
>> are there any more info i can provide to help this troubleshoot ?
>>
>>      
> Please post the messages you get when you try to restore any of this
> data. Along with any log info that says it is pruning. Like you
> mentioned in the section about using bscan.
>
> John
>    


let me rephrase all this.... isn't my problem that "job retention" set 
to short after all? thus volumes are in tact and not purged but any 
restore beyond 6 months (which fall in on the month we upgraded, plain 
coincident) need a jobid info and file records which has been pruned ?

i am correct?

kiryl

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