>>>>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:04:45 +0200, Dirk H Schulz said:
> 
> 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)?

I think Bacula prunes files when you run a job, not as soon as you start the
director.  You can put 'AutoPrune = no' in the client and pool definitions to
turn off automatic pruning.

__Martin

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