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Re: [Bacula-users] My file retention is 30 days, but restore says no files found..

2013-06-14 14:07:06
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] My file retention is 30 days, but restore says no files found..
From: Jonathan Bayer <linuxgurugamer AT gmail DOT com>
To: Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:04:29 -0400
Seems like you asked for a full restore, and one or more of the jobs 
which were in the list were more than 30 days old.

Is it possible that yesterday's job was an incremental or differential, 
and the last full was more than 30 days old?


JBB


On 6/14/2013 2:00 PM, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
> Yes, but the option i selected was "Restore the latest backup for this 
> client" which was..  yesterday.
>
> ANd that is the crux of my confusion.
>
> On 2013-06-14, at 2:32 PM, Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I went to restore some files this morning and had a "check my pants" sort of 
>> moment. I went to do the restore and got something like this:
>>
>> ====
>> You have selected the following JobIds: 296,436,440,444,448
>>
>> Building directory tree for JobId(s) 296,436,440,444,448 ...  +
>>
>> For one or more of the JobIds selected, no files were found,
>> so file selection is not possible.
>> Most likely your retention policy pruned the files.
>>
>> Do you want to restore all the files? (yes|no):
>> ====
>>
>> So I clicked, yes and was able to get all my files just fine. No harm or 
>> error there. But I'm curious why my files are pruned from my catalog?
>>
>> My File Retention times are all set to 30 days. Job Retentions to 6 months. 
>> Volume retention 365 days
>>
>> I DO have AutoPrune on. I'm just unsure of why they are being pruned…
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Jeff.
>>
>>
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