If you want tapes around forever, I think your best bet is to change the
retention time in the pool to, say, ten years (I'm not sure if you can
do an infinite retention time off the top of my head). Usually, if
bacula can manage something, why would you want to do it manually?
That said, to answer your other questions: you actually can recover what
is on a tape even after the tape has been marked as "purged" in the
database. The data on the tape is unchanged, and the btape and bextract
utilities allow you to recover whatever is on the tape, even if it is no
longer in the database.
In addition to Recycle = no, you may also want to set AutoPrune = no.
Otherwise, bacula will still delete database records about your tapes.
You probably should make sure that the fileset resource has a shorter
retention time than the jobs or volumes in the pool, since the file
information takes up a lot of space in the database. The bacula manual
has quite a bit of information on that aspect in the database
maintenance chapter.
Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I have the following doubt that I would like to know if you could
> clarify to me. I have a tape group from full pool that was not on in
> tape library and Bacula turn it to 'purged' state. This means that if I
> return the tapes again to the jukebox then I could not recover what they
> contain?
>
> I had thought, like preventive measure to have tapes of full pool whose
> information is always accessible independent of the time, that they are
> only possible to be manually recycle. What think of this measurement?
>
> So the tapes can only be manually recycle must be 'Recycle = no' in the
> pool definition and that flag 'recycled' in each volume must be zero?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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