On Feb 8, 2013, at 3:55 AM, Süleyman Kuran <skuran AT ayk.gov DOT tr> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>> 

Great info.  If the purging is working as expected, then all is well.  Will 
verify it is working and then proceed from there.

Thanks Again.




>> 
>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Tilman Schmidt
>>> Phoenix Software GmbH
>>> Bonn, Germany
>>> 
>> Jim Summers
>> University of Oklahoma
>> jsummers AT ou DOT edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
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