Hi Folks,

I have to retrieve files from a very old backup. The bacula daemon has not 
run for months on the backup server, and the files to retrieve are also 
months old.
If I would start up the bacula director it would immediately start pruning 
the old file entries from the database and marking the tapes overwritable. 
But I have to get these files first.

My first bet would be to enter the database and manipulate the retention 
date of files, volumes, pools, etc. before starting bacula director. Is 
this the correct approach to the problem? And if yes, what date(s) exactly 
do I have to manipulate (I did not find out from the docs which dates are 
calculated by bacula director at runtime and which are fixed database 
entries)?
Of course I could stroll throught the database tables and see what I find 
instead of asking here but I am afraid to manipulate the wrong things and 
loose data.

Any hint or help is appreciated.

Dirk



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