Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] question about schedules and retentions

2008-11-11 17:08:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] question about schedules and retentions
From: "Timo Neuvonen" <timo-news AT tee-en DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:35:50 +0200
"Carlo Maesen" <c.maesen AT aca-it DOT be> kirjoitti viestissä 
news:1290058275.145521226423938490.JavaMail.root@itshas-sv06...
>
> I did read the bacula manual but, I have some questions about schedules.
> I creat the following schedule:
> Schedule {
>  Name = aca-cycle
>  Run = Level=Incremental Pool=aca mon-thu at 22:00
>  Run = Level=Full Pool=aca 1st-4th sat at 22:00
> }
>
> I backup one client according this schedule, but each different run has 
> also a different file and job retention. (Incr = 4 weeks, Full = 1 year)
> Do I have to create 2 different clients and jobs, one for the incemental 
> backup and one for the full ?
> Because the file and job retenion is defined in the client-directive.
>

Still another view in addition to the Arno's reply, that courages to use 
different pools too:

If you put jobs with different retention periods into the same pool, they'll 
also be mixed into the same volumes, and all the jobs with shorter retention 
time will occupy storage space until you can recycle the whole volume. 
Though you can prune the catalog earlier, there is no way to partially free 
the storage space from the volume although the file/job retention times 
would allow this for certain jobs. So, in your example above (if it were 
possible at all) you would keep all the daily incrementals in the storage 
media until the freshest full (saturday) job on that media were at least 1 
year old (provided the volume retention was set to 1 year too). This could 
result in a huge need for storage.

--
TiN



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