>>>>> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 21:43:08 -0500, John Drescher said:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, May, John <john.may AT fugrohorizons DOT com> 
> wrote:
> > I frequently have to archive data off the server that should never expire.  
> > I would like to archive this data onto a new tape, so the archived data is 
> > the only thing on the tape.  How do I tell Bacula to do this?  I think it 
> > has something to do with the Pools, so below is my bacula-dir.conf.  I've 
> > setup an Archive Pool along with some others, but haven't used them yet.
> >
> > Pool {
> >   Name = "Archive"
> >   Pool Type = Backup
> >   Recycle = no
> >   Auto Prune = no
> >   Volume Retention = 30 years
> >   Accept Any Volume = yes
> >   Cleaning Prefix = CLN
> > }
> >
> 
> Looks fine to me. I have been doing similar for 5+ years with bacula
> at work without any issue. I have > 20TB in archive.

There is a small problem with that: Bacula will prune file records for those
jobs based on the Client settings.  Using "Auto Prune = no" in the Pool
doesn't prevent that, because file pruning is done per client, not per job or
per pool.

__Martin

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