Hi,
07.07.2008 20:55, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
> 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.
You were a bit lucky, perhaps - after changing pool definitions, you
have to update the existin volumes :-)
Arno
> Thanks to all who helped!
>
> Dirk
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