Will changing the clientid actually work?  I saw that in the 'Jobs' table in 
the bacula database, but didn't want to mess up the database as I wasn't sure 
that changing that clientid would actually work.

What I did was to create another client called 'bkupsvr-30y' and set 
'autoprune=no' and set the retention times to '30 years'.  As I understand, I 
can just change the job's clientid to this new client, then do a bscan to get 
the files back in the database.  Should that work?

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Simmons [mailto:martin AT lispworks DOT com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 2:46 AM
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Retention Policy Pruning Files?

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

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