Re: [Bacula-users] Volume purged, why?
2008-05-04 00:32:30
John Drescher-2 wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 11:21 PM, sporkman <spork AT bway DOT net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sat 03 May 2008 16:03, Charles Sprickman wrote:
>> >> I recently noticed that two of my monthly tapes were purged, and I'm
>> >> trying to figure out why.
>> >>
>> >> My pool definition:
>> >>
>> >> Pool {
>> >> Name = Monthly
>> >> Pool Type = Backup
>> >> Recycle = no # Bacula can automatically
>> recycle
>> >> Volumes
>> >> AutoPrune = yes # Prune expired volumes
>> >> Volume Retention = 2 years
>> >> Volume Use Duration = 1 month
>> >> Maximum Volumes = 12
>> >> LabelFormat = "Monthly"
>> >> }
>> >>
>> >> I was looking at the Volume recycling docs here:
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://bacula.org/manuals/en/concepts/concepts/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.h
>> >>tml
>> >>
>> >> And it seems like these volumes should not be pruned until the Volume
>> >> Retention period is met.
>> >>
>>
>>
>> > Yes, the default file retention period is 60 days and the default job
>> > retention is 180 days. Auto pruning operates on files, jobs & volumes.
>> It
>> > would appear that all of the files and jobs related to these volumes
>> had
>> > been
>> > pruned from your catalog. Once they all were pruned the volumes were
>> > marked
>> > as purged.
>>
>> That contradicts the documentation though...
>>
>>>From the way I read it there is no contradiction.
>>
>> "The Volume Retention period takes precedence over any Job Retention
>> period
>> you have specified in the Client resource."
>>
>> In other words, Volume Retention is the only thing that counts, right?
>>
> No. I believe it means that if Volume Retention is less than file or
> job retention then the volume could still be pruned instead of having
> to wait for the other two retention periods.
>
> John
>
Odd. I just looked at all my job and client definitions and there is no
retention declared anywhere. I also still read "takes precedence" as
"overrides", as does my wife, formerly an english prof. :)
Grepping around and removing anything with a comment in front of it, I get
this:
bacula-dir.conf: Volume Retention = 365 days # one year
bacula-dir.conf: Volume Retention = 2 years # one year
bacula-dir.conf: Volume Retention = 3 months # one month
bacula-dir.conf: Volume Retention = 1 month # 5 days
Those are all from my pool definitions.
Either something broke or I am losing my mind...
Thanks,
Charles
ps - apologies for any formatting oddness, I'm trying Nabble as a way to
search/post to lists that I don't want coming directly to my inbox. It
looks fine within their interface, but I'm not sure how accurate that is.
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