On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET
SYSTEMS INC] <uthra.r.rao AT nasa DOT gov> wrote:
> John,
>
> We have only volume retention set for the pools. I have not set job and file 
> retention for the different pools.  So, in my case when a tape is expired the 
> catalog record remains intact until such time the tape is recycled right?
>
> Once the tape is recycled the catalog record for the jobs on that tapes is 
> deleted.
>
> I need one clarification please. If the tape has expired but not recycled, I 
> can still do a successful restore right?
>

Yes. If the tape/volume has its retention period expired but it was
not recycled you should be able to restore as normal. I believe in
that case (with no specified job or file retention) bacula would not
have purged the job records until the tape was recycled.


John

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