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Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning Jobs older than 6 months

2011-07-21 06:42:53
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning Jobs older than 6 months
From: Hugo Letemplier <hugo.let.35 AT gmail DOT com>
To: Rickifer Barros <rickiferbarros AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:39:21 +0200
Dont forget to update your pool record.

2011/7/20 Rickifer Barros <rickiferbarros AT gmail DOT com>:
> Also, I could set up for my Jobs and Files Retention the same that Volume
> Retention without problems, is that right?
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Rickifer Barros <rickiferbarros AT gmail 
> DOT com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jeremy...I'll do that.
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Jeremy Maes <jma AT schaubroeck DOT be> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Op 20/07/2011 16:03, Rickifer Barros schreef:
>>>
>>> Ok...but I don't want to disable the pruning entirely...I want Bacula do
>>> the pruning only according my settings. If I set the Autoprune=no Will do
>>> Bacula pruning jobs according the Volume Retention? Because I have
>>> configured the Volume Retentions but not the Job Retentions.
>>>
>>> Then you will have to set a Job retention time for your clients or pools
>>> that is very large so it will never affect your jobs (100 years for
>>> example). If you don't explicitly set this it'll just take the default of
>>> 180 days (aka 6 months).
>>> If your Volume retention is shorter than 6 months it won't make any
>>> difference though because job records are also pruned when the volume
>>> they're on is pruned.
>>>
>>> The same goes for File Retention, which has a default value of 60 days
>>> (see the manual). If your volume retention is set higher I'd advise setting
>>> this to a very large time just like the job retention.
>>>
>>> If you set "Autoprune = no" bacula will do no pruning at all, so you'll
>>> want to keep this at "Autoprune = yes".
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeremy
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jeremy Maes <jma AT schaubroeck DOT be> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Op 20/07/2011 15:20, Rickifer Barros schreef:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello Guys...
>>>>>
>>>>> Why Bacula always after each Job try to prune Jobs older than 6 months
>>>>> even when there's no settings to this?
>>>>>
>>>>> 20-Jul 10:01 test-dir JobId 96: Begin pruning Jobs older than 6 months
>>>>> .
>>>>> 20-Jul 10:01 test-dir JobId 96: No Jobs found to prune.
>>>>> 20-Jul 10:01 test-dir JobId 96: Begin pruning Jobs.
>>>>> 20-Jul 10:01 test-dir JobId 96: No Files found to prune.
>>>>> 20-Jul 10:01 test-dir JobId 96: End auto prune.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> If I'm not mistaken 6 months is the default value used for pruning when
>>>> you don't define any retention periods.
>>>> If you want to disable pruning entirely you need to add an "Autoprune =
>>>> no" directive to your pool configs.
>>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Jeremy
>>>>
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