Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes

2009-03-29 00:14:32
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Doubt on recycling of volumes
From: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:50:43 -0700
Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> I was reading the 'catalog maintenance' chapter in order to understand a
> little more on the operation of File Retention and Job Retention. But
> something is not to me clear still. Beyond what is due to maintain the
> rule File Retention < Job Retention < Volume Retention, from the moment
> at which I would be leaving AutoPrune = no, then records in the catalog
> database are keeping forever with the con the volume of the database
> will grow more and more.
>
> Why it would be necessary to use 'AutoPrune = no' if I can use bscan to
> get back the jobs and file records that were purged from the database?
>   
You are absolutely right. I had been under the impression that that is 
what you wanted.

BTW, one problem with Autoprune is that after you run bscan, the next 
time pruning happens, the just-scanned volumes/jobs/files would be 
recognized as old again, and be pruned right back out of the database.

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