> I've set up job/file pruning on all clients (i.e., AutoPrune = yes) that
> are backed up by my Bacula instance, but I'm wondering (the
> documentation isn't really clear on this) whether that's enough to cause
> volumes to be recycled when no more jobs are bound to a volume.
Hey Mr. Heiko: AutoPrune affects only information on Catalog, not on Volume.
It's purpose is to avoid bacula database excessive growth.
In other words, Volume Retention will always be the parameter that rules the
data life cycle on volume, even if all recorded Jobs are pruned.
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> I've
> disabled AutoPrune on by storage (file-based) pool due to the fact that
> the clients have very different retainer times (depending on the
> criticality of the system and the storage amount), and basically the
> only option to be able to recycle volumes based on AutoPruning of
> volumes would be to set the volume retention time to the maximum of all
> client retention times.
>
> Will volumes become marked as Purged once all jobs are pruned for the
> clients that are bound on this volume, or will I have no volume
> recycling at all with the setup that I've done presently? I know that
> this means that some volumes won't become recycled, even though only
> very little "actual" catalog data is left on them, but that's something
> that I'm willing to have.
>
> Thanks for any hint!
>
> --
> --- Heiko Wundram.
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