Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels

2013-08-08 17:39:28
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] question about backup levels
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: Greg Woods <greg AT gregandeva DOT net>
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 17:34:01 -0400
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Greg Woods <greg AT gregandeva DOT net> wrote:
>
> OK, I think I have it figured out, and it's not pretty. I suspect that
> most of the backups I have already done are useless and I will have to
> repeat all of the Full backups and start all over again.
>
> The answer came when I tried to do a restore. I thought, OK, if I messed
> up the director configuration, why not restore the version of
> bacula-dir.conf prior to my most recent set of changes and see what
> happens if I use that? The problem was that I was unable to find this
> file on the Full backup. It's simply not there. And here's the problem,
> in my template client:
>
> Client {
>   Name = "CLIENT-NAME"
>   Address = CLIENT-NAME.gregandeva.net
>   Catalog = "GregAndEva"
>   Password = "bkup$ucks"
>   File Retention = 200
>   Job Retention = 200
> }
>
>
> I thought I was specifying retention times of 200 days, but I'll bet I'm
> not, and in fact, my Full backups have been pruned and everything
> removed from the Catalog.

I think this is in seconds.

John

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