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

2013-06-14 14:18:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] My file retention is 30 days, but restore says no files found..
From: Jeff MacDonald <jeff AT terida DOT com>
To: Jonathan Bayer <linuxgurugamer AT gmail DOT com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:14:34 -0300
What you are suggesting is 100% true. I believe what happened is some of my 
full's got cancelled cause of a volume filling, or duplicate jobs piled up or 
some such thing. 

Thanks for the extra set of eyes folks.


On 2013-06-14, at 3:04 PM, Jonathan Bayer <linuxgurugamer AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:

> 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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