I am also not sure about  upgrading from Simone Caronni's repo. If 
purging works fine than there is no need to break Bacula.

On 07-02-2013 16:08, Summers, James B. II wrote:
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt AT phoenixsoftware DOT 
> de> wrote:
>
>> Am 06.02.2013 04:19, schrieb Summers, James B. II:
>>> On Feb 5, 2013, at 5:15 PM, Tilman Schmidt <t.schmidt AT phoenixsoftware 
>>> DOT de> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am 05.02.2013 18:09, schrieb Summers, James B. II:
>>>>> I was looking at my backup email reports and keep seeing the following at 
>>>>> the end of each report:
>>>>>
>>>>> JobId 5968: Begin pruning Jobs older than 42 years 7 months 21 days 15 
>>>>> hours 57 mins 50 sec.
>>>>> JobId 5968: No Jobs found to prune.
>>>>>
>>>>> My understanding from the documentation is that the default job retention 
>>>>> is 180 days.  But for some reason it is trying to only purge things older 
>>>>> than 42 years?
>>>> I seem to remember that was a bug in some old version of Bacula.
>>>> Which version are you using?
>>> We are running 5.0.0-9 on a RHEL 6.3 machine.
>> I'm quite happy with Simone Caronni's Bacula builds for RHEL from
>> http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/slaanesh/bacula/epel-6/x86_64/ .
>> It's currently at release 5.2.12-7.
>>
>> Scanning through my old logs, I see I did get that same message
>> back when I still ran 5.0.0. It disappeared after the upgrade to
>> 5.2.6 in March 2012.
>>
> Before I actually do the upgrade, I was wondering, if it is just an erroneous 
> message and it actually is purging on the 180 day job retention?
>
> The reason I ask is last week I had reached a point where I needed to start 
> re-using old volumes.  Which  I was able to resolve by adjusting the Volume 
> retention time.  But I think when I did that it also overrides the job and 
> file retention anyway, so it really was not a problem.
>
> I think I will use bconsole and see if I can determine if the job and file 
> retention times are being used as expected.
>
> Thanks Again
>
>
>
>
>> -- 
>> Tilman Schmidt
>> Phoenix Software GmbH
>> Bonn, Germany
>>
> Jim Summers
> University of Oklahoma
> jsummers AT ou DOT edu
>
>
>
>
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