Hi guys,

I need some clarification regarding the terms "retention time" and "prune":

"Retention time": The time a file record and/or job record is stored in 
the database. For example: "File retention = 30 days" means that a file 
record is stored in the database for 30 days. If you do a restore in 
this time you are able to select the file directly. After day 30 you can 
just restore the whole job without a selection by files

"Prune": With the "AutoPrune" directive a volume is marked as "recycled" 
and can be reused when the volume retention period is over. But the 
volume isn't automatically rewritten unless "Recycle = yes" is present, 
right?


My second question is whether it is possible for bacula to delete a 
volume (also the created volume file on a hard disk) after a specific 
amount of time (e.g. 4 weeks)? So I create a backup at the beginning of 
the month and at the end of the month bacula is automatically deleting 
all records from the database (File/Job/Volume retention would apply 
here?) and also deletes the created volume file from the disk.

Thank you very much for enlightening me,

Daniel Heitepriem


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