Hi,

11.04.2008 17:58, Roberto Nebot wrote:
> Hello folks!
> 
> I don't understand how bacula is working or may be I misunderstood the
> bacula documentation. When you stablish for example a volume retention
> period of 4 days for example each job is deleted older than date is 
> purged from the director jobs no matter if the directive job retention 
> period or file retention period are set for a longer period of time.

Right. I assume that's what you observe as it matches the 
documentation and my own experience.

> So every time that I do a list jobs in the director daemon a lot of 
> jobs are not there, so I can not use list jobs as a log of the 
> job that have already launched during the time bacula is installed on my
> servers.

Correct. The catalog holds the information about the data Bacula has 
stored. It's not a log of all things that Bacula did.

> Is bacula working like this or I just misunderstood the bacula's way of
> work? and if that is the case what can I do to solve the problem?

Well, first of all there is the question why and if you need a log of 
what Bacula did.

If you want that, you can use several approaches:
- In the catalog, copy the relevant information to another table or 
database for later reference.
-Have Bacula log its job executions, for example by using a "Run After 
Job" script that prints the relevant data to a log file.

Would these options do what you need?

Arno


> Thanks in advance.
> Roberto
> 
> 
> 
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