I have a question regarding Bacula retention period.
We have bacula Server 7.4.0 installed on SLES 12.
We wish to take weekly incremental backup of a client (ClientA) and then Full Backup over the weekend.
Weekly incremental backup , we would like to keep for 1 month.
Weekend Full backup , we wish to keep for 3 months.
One more system level (System partition only /root /usr etc) full backup of the same client we wish to take every 6 months. and retain obviously 6 months.
Create pools distinct with retention expected and create 2 Jobs for this client
In this scenarios , I am not sure how should I go about different backup retention requirement for a same client. As the 2 rentention parameters job records and file records and to be
mentioned in the Client Section. How can we specify 2 different job/file rentention periods for a single client. Is it possible?
You can set the Job and File retention with the higher retention as you expect, because when the volume is recycled it will prune Jobs and Files from Catalog, for this you have to set in the Pool resource "Auto prune = yes"
