iYou may also turn off autoprune and write a runafter job to keep last two
backups and prune other jobs.
Hemant Shah
E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
--- On Thu, 8/14/08, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu> wrote:
> From: Ryan Novosielski <novosirj AT umdnj DOT edu>
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Count Based Retention
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Date: Thursday, August 14, 2008, 9:30 AM
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> John Yates wrote:
> > Is there any way to get Bacula to expire backup jobs
> based on a count
> > of existing jobs of the same type rather than by how
> old each job of a
> > type is? I am currently running a job every night
> that backs up to
> > disk, and I want to keep the two most recent ones. If
> it set the
> > retention period to two days, that should ususall do
> the right thing,
> > but if, for example, I shut off all my computers and
> go on vacation
> > for a week, when I come back, my backups will all be
> expired -- not
> > what I want.
> >
> > I suspect that what many, if not most, people really
> want is to keep a
> > specific number of old backups, not any that are more
> recent than a
> > certain date. Is there some way to make bacula work
> this way? The
> > Storix backup product that I have used can do this.
>
> Are you speaking from experience with Bacula? Bacula is
> very reluctant
> to recycle any data, especially if there are no current
> backups. I see
> what you're getting at, but unless I'm missing
> something, that is not
> what actually happens, so I'm guessing this is
> hypothetical.
>
> There is no way without scripting to ask it to keep a
> certain number of
> backups, though with predictable scheduling, this will
> happen anyway.
> And if you're worried about throwing away current
> backups, I'm really
> not convinced that it has this problem.
>
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