Hi,

I am adding this to precise question and "reopen" the topic.
I read many time the chapter of the documentation but I was never sure
of what I understood.

As you know when you do an inc you need a " sequence of job " : at
least a full + maybe 1 diff + maybe many incs
That would be nice to have some security option that make sure that a
full a diff or a previous inc wont be purged although  there is still
a valid job that is dependent of theses ones.
For the moment i have set 3 pools for a "kind of data" ( ex: mail data )
For the full I configured on 0 (unlimited)
For the diff 2 week
For the incs 1 week

one problem is that the last inc of a sequence will be kept whereas
the first inc of the same sequence is purged.

when I do a diff that should be like that :

diff  : ==================>
inc  :   =======>>>
inc  :     =======>>
inc  :       =======>

and not like that :
diff  : ==================>
inc  :   =======>
inc  :     =======>
inc  :       =======>

Can you tell me if bacula, when it's going to purge a job check if
another job depends of the one that it's going to purge ?

2011/3/24 Hugo Letemplier <hugo.let.35 AT gmail DOT com>:
> Hi,
>
> Hi,
> I work for an enterprise that need a good backup software and I chosen Bacula;
> I am now trying to configure it but I have a doubt.
> I am setting up a disk based backup server with manual LTO tapes archiving.
> I have 4 "Class" of data to backup :
> -My mail server
> -My infrastructure (DNS, Directory…)
> -My file server
> -My information services
>
> I created 3 pools per class (Full - Diff - Inc ) plus one more for
> Archive with an infinite retention.
>
> My question, for the moment is about my file server that represent the
> biggest amount of data to backup and the higher backup frequency w/
> the datas of the intra/extranet software
>
> My difficulties are in setting retention periods for my pools. I read
> a bacula-dir.conf example and I saw that it keeps the full for one 1
> year.
> I am about to keep my full for 28 weeks my diff for 4 weeks my inc for 10 days
> I will do 1 inc per day 2 diff per months and 3 full per year
> How can I be sure that it will work ? If I do my last inc does it will
> update retention time on the previous incs so the restore would be
> possible 1 week after the last inc.
> as an example:
> - 1st inc (1 week retention)
> - 2nd inc (1 w)
> - 3rd inc (1 w)
> .....
> - 8th inc (1 w)
>
> I have the same kind of question with many jobs of different level.
> Does a higher level job inherits the lower job retention ? Indeed, an
> inc need the full and eventually a diff to be fully restored.
> Does bacula come with a mechanism
> that avoid an inc or a diff to be there without the full (or the diff,
> and previous incs) that it used as a base ?
>
> My second question is more bound to my file server. How can I
> "estimate" and configure safely job retention because I have no idea
> on how my datas will grow job after job ? Is there a good method ?
>
> I am using bacula 5.0.3 on CentOS 5.5
>
> I hope you understood my English and you will have a time to answer my
> questions.
>
> Thank you very much in advance.
>
> Hugo
>

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