John,

I just have one more question. If a tape has expired because of the volume 
retention period and the job record is in intact in the catalog will the 
incremental backup for a given client continue or will it be upgraded to a 
"FULL back-up" because the tape has expired?  Thank you.

Uthra

-----Original Message-----
From: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm AT gmail DOT com] 
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 10:08 AM
To: Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC]; bacula-users
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] restore from expired tapes

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Rao, Uthra R. (GSFC-672.0)[ADNET SYSTEMS INC] 
<uthra.r.rao AT nasa DOT gov> wrote:
> John,
>
> We have only volume retention set for the pools. I have not set job and file 
> retention for the different pools.  So, in my case when a tape is expired the 
> catalog record remains intact until such time the tape is recycled right?
>
> Once the tape is recycled the catalog record for the jobs on that tapes is 
> deleted.
>
> I need one clarification please. If the tape has expired but not recycled, I 
> can still do a successful restore right?
>

Yes. If the tape/volume has its retention period expired but it was not 
recycled you should be able to restore as normal. I believe in that case (with 
no specified job or file retention) bacula would not have purged the job 
records until the tape was recycled.


John

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