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Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole prune/purge commands

2009-03-20 07:06:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bconsole prune/purge commands
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 10:59:10 GMT
>>>>> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:42:36 +0100, Ferdinando Pasqualetti said:
> 
> Does anybody knows if there is a reason why the "prune" command, which is 
> not dangerous and also automatically triggered in some cases ask for a 
> confirmation before being executed, while the "purge" command, which 
> overrides retention times, shows a caution message, but it is executed 
> anyway?

The prune command removes records from the database, so it is slightly
dangerous (you can't restore those jobs directly afterwards).

Automatic pruning only happens when a job runs and it only prunes the client
being backed up, whereas the prune command can affect any client.

__Martin

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