Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Keep last full backup

2011-03-25 22:36:08
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Keep last full backup
From: "James Harper" <james.harper AT bendigoit.com DOT au>
To: "Dan Langille" <dan AT langille DOT org>, <rhododendronbusch AT googlemail DOT com>
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 13:33:16 +1100
> 
> Not that I know of
> 
> > If I got it right then the file- and job
> > retention is overruled by the volume retention, so I don't see a
> > solution for this problem...
> 
> Consider this...
> 
> Keep File and Job Retention at 3 years.
> 
> Create a new pool with retention 3 years, call it LONGTERM.
> 
> Once a day, run a copy job.  Look for Full backups that are more than
> four weeks old.  Copy such jobs to the LONGTERM pool.
> 
> Then if you wish, have another script which if it sees a newer full in
> the regular pool, it purges the LONGTERM pool.
> 

You could also code up some SQL to push the retention date out to
infinity on the most recent full backup, and reset the retention date on
volumes that not the most recent full backup. Just set it to run on job
completion.

James

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