Hi Martin,
--On 7. Juli 2008 19:00:17 +0100 Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>
- snip -
> 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.
Well, I think I have seen the director prune files right after starting,
but I would not swear on it.
I have done what John Drescher proposed, have adjusted the retention times
in bacula-dir.conf and then started the director. At the moment the files
are flowing back to the server where they belong.
Thanks to all who helped!
Dirk
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