Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention

2008-10-13 10:21:59
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Catalog backup retention
From: "John Drescher" <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: "Radek Hladik" <radek AT eadresa DOT cz>, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:19:47 -0400
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:33 AM, Radek Hladik <radek AT eadresa DOT cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>        I would like to ask how should I recycle catalog backups.
> I am using disk based storage and catalog pool is by default set to
> half-year or so long retention period. I would think, that week would be
>  more than sufficient.
> What is old catalog backup good for? I mean if I have catalog backup
> older that data backup I would need to run bscan from scratch. Otherwise
> more recent data would not be recognized by Bacula and on the other hand
> there may be data in catalog which are not in data backups any more...
>

I do not keep more than a month or so. However the server I have them
on is not were my regular backups go so I have tons of space there.

John

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