[Bacula-users] FW: Pruning/Purging and Volume Retention

This is the output I get after a job has completed. The lines at the end suggest job pruning--does the auto prune not also trigger the purging and recycling?

Thanks.

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29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Python Dir JobStart: JobId=797 Client=asus-fd NumVols=0
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 798: Python Dir JobStart: JobId=798 Client=asus-fd NumVols=0
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 799: Python Dir JobStart: JobId=799 Client=vaio-fd NumVols=0
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Start Backup JobId 797, Job=AsusData-XP.2011-07-29_22.00.00_02
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Using Device "FileStorage"
29-Jul 22:00 asus-sd JobId 797: Volume "AsusXPDaily-0003" previously written, moving to end of data.
29-Jul 22:00 asus-sd JobId 797: Ready to append to end of Volume "AsusXPDaily-0003" size=561735340
29-Jul 22:00 asus-sd JobId 797: Job write elapsed time = 00:00:49, Transfer rate = 0 Bytes/second
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Bacula asus-dir 5.0.2 (28Apr10): 29-Jul-2011 22:00:52
Build OS:               i686-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu 10.04
JobId:                  797
Job:                    AsusData-XP.2011-07-29_22.00.00_02
Backup Level:           Incremental, since=2011-07-26 22:00:03
Client:                 "asus-fd" 5.0.2 (28Apr10) i686-pc-linux-gnu,ubuntu,10.04
FileSet:                "AsusDataXP" 2010-07-25 21:00:00
Pool:                   "AsusXPDaily" (>>From Job IncPool override)
Catalog:                "MyCatalog" (From Client resource)
Storage:                "File" (From Job resource)
Scheduled time:         29-Jul-2011 22:00:00
Start time:             29-Jul-2011 22:00:03
End time:               29-Jul-2011 22:00:52
Elapsed time:           49 secs
Priority:               8
FD Files Written:       0
SD Files Written:       0
FD Bytes Written:       0 (0 B)
SD Bytes Written:       0 (0 B)
Rate:                   0.0 KB/s
Software Compression:   None
VSS:                    no
Encryption:             no
Accurate:               no
Volume name(s):
Volume Session Id:      1
Volume Session Time:    1311964573
Last Volume Bytes:      561,735,746 (561.7 MB)
Non-fatal FD errors:    0
SD Errors:              0
FD termination status: OK
SD termination status: OK
Termination:            Backup OK

29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Begin pruning Jobs older than 2 years .
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: No Jobs found to prune.
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: Begin pruning Jobs.
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: No Files found to prune.
29-Jul 22:00 asus-dir JobId 797: End auto prune.

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> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:29:11 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Pruning/Purging and Volume Retention
> CC: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
>
> > Apologies if this question has been answered previously, but I'm struggling
> > to find a definitive answer.
> >
> > When a job completes and then marks a volume as purged, does it do this only
> > for volumes in the pool used by that job and only if the job is successful,
> > or are all volumes (regardless of pool and success of the job) affected?
> >
> I am confused at the question. After a job completes it does not purge
> any volumes.
>
> John

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