Hi all,

Bacula 5.0.3.

I have a client for which I do not run a backup job on a scheduled
basis but only when I start it manually.

Today I wanted to restore a file from the last backup. But there is
no backup left in the catalog!

How can that happen?

I know that there are different retention periods. But according to
the docs there should *always* be a valid backup, right?

The docs say:

  "File Retention = time-period-specification
      [...]
      When this time period expires, and if AutoPrune is set to yes,
      Bacula will prune (remove) File records that are older than
      the specified File Retention period. The pruning will occur at
                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
      the end of a backup Job for the given Client."
      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Even if the last backup I had may be expired: Why would it have been
removed from the database then?

There has no job been run since then for that client. And if there
would have, then that last job must be in the database at least.

The last backup was:
12-Sep-2010 13:23:22 - bart-Data.2010-09-12_13.02.01_10 - Full (upgraded from 
Incremental)

And: The retension periods for that client are configure to 12
months:

Client {
  [...]
  File Retention = 12 months
  Job Retention = 12 months
  AutoPrune = yes
}

Any hints?

-Marc
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