>>>>> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 15:23:03 -0600, May, John said:
> 
> What about archives I've already made using the 'bad' client with
> 'autoprune=yes' option?  I tried to bscan the tape back into the database,
> but I still can't restore individual files.  I get the error message about
> the files being pruned.

There is no simple long-term solution.

You can turn off AutoPrune temporarily and reload the config before doing the
bscan if you need to do a restore.  You could then modify the clientid for
those jobs in the Jobs table to refer to the new archiving client.

__Martin


> 
> 
> John
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 1:56 PM
> To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Policy Pruning Files?
> 
>>>>> On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:43:12 -0600, May, John said:
> > 
> > Whenever I archive files, I always put them in an 'Archive' pool I created
> >   After only about a week or two, I am no longer able to restore because I
> > get the following message:
> > 
> > You have selected the following JobId: 686
> > 
> > Building directory tree for JobId(s) 686 ...
> > 
> > For one or more of the JobIds selected, no files were found,
> > so file selection is not possible.
> > Most likely your retention policy pruned the files.
> > 
> > Do you want to restore all the files? (yes|no):
> > 
> > Can sombody take a look at my bacula-dir.conf file and see why this is 
> > happening?
> > 
> > All Archive jobs have different filesets, but go into the pool 'Archive'.
> > I've set a retention period of 30 years, job retention of 30 years, Recycle
> >  = no, Auto Prune = no and Volume retention of 30  years, but the files
> >  seem to be still getting pruned.
> 
> I think the problem is that the client definition contains:
> 
> >   File Retention = 30 days  # 30 days
> >   AutoPrune = yes           # Prune expired Jobs/Files
> 
> This causes it to prune the file records of *all* jobs for that client
> whenever it prunes *any* job for that client.
> 
> Assuming you need that file retention for other jobs on the client, you can
> work around the problem by adding a separate client definition for use by the
> archive jobs, with the same Address pararmeter as the normal one.
> 
> __Martin
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