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The Volume Retention directive defines the length of time that {\bf Bacula}
will keep Job records associated with the Volume in the Catalog database.
When this time period expires, and if {\bf AutoPrune} is set to {\bf yes}
- Bacula will prune (remove) Job records that are older than the specified
- Volume Retention period. All File records associated with pruned Jobs are
+ Bacula may prune (remove) Job records that are older than the specified
+ Volume Retention period if it is necessary to free up a Volume.
+ Recycling will not occur until it is absolutely necessary to free up a
+ volume. All File records associated with pruned Jobs are
also pruned. The time may be specified as seconds, minutes, hours, days,
weeks, months, quarters, or years. The {\bf Volume Retention} applied
independently to the {\bf Job Retention} and the {\bf File Retention}
-periods
- defined in the Client resource. This means that the shorter period is the
- one that applies. Note, that when the {\bf Volume Retention} period has been
- reached, it will prune both the Job and the File records.
+ periods
+ defined in the Client resource. This means that the shorter period is
+ the one that applies. Note, that when the {\bf Volume Retention} period
+ has been reached, and it is necessary to obtain a new volume, Bacula
+ will prune both the Job and the File records.
+
+ It is important to know that when the Volume Retention period expires,
+ Bacula does not automatically recycle a Volume. It attempts to keep the
+ Volume data intact as long as possible before pruning it.
- The default is 365 days. Note, this directive sets the default value for
-each
- Volume entry in the Catalog when the Volume is created. The value in the
- catalog may be later individually changed for each Volume using the Console
- program.
+ The default is 365 days. Note, this directive sets the default value
+ for each Volume entry in the Catalog when the Volume is created. The
+ value in the catalog may be later individually changed for each Volume
+ using the Console program.
- By defining multiple Pools with different Volume Retention periods, you may
- effectively have a set of tapes that is recycled weekly, another Pool of
- tapes that is recycled monthly and so on. However, one must keep in mind
-that
- if your {\bf Volume Retention} period is too short, it may prune the last
- valid Full backup, and hence until the next Full backup is done, you will
-not
- have a complete backup of your system, and in addition, the next
-Incremental
- or Differential backup will be promoted to a Full backup. As a consequence,
- the minimum {\bf Volume Retention} period should be at twice the interval of
- your Full backups. This means that if you do a Full backup once a month, the
- minimum Volume retention period should be two months.
+ By defining multiple Pools with different Volume Retention periods, you
+ may effectively have a set of tapes that is recycled weekly, another
+ Pool of tapes that is recycled monthly and so on. However, one must
+ keep in mind that if your {\bf Volume Retention} period is too short, it
+ may prune the last valid Full backup, and hence until the next Full
+ backup is done, you will not have a complete backup of your system, and
+ in addition, the next Incremental or Differential backup will be
+ promoted to a Full backup. As a consequence, the minimum {\bf Volume
+ Retention} period should be at twice the interval of your Full backups.
+ This means that if you do a Full backup once a month, the minimum Volume
+ retention period should be two months.
Please note that the value defined by this directive in the bacula-dir.conf
file is the default value used when a Volume is created. Once the volume is
\item [Label Format = \lt{}format\gt{}]
\index[dir]{Label Format }
- This directive specifies the format of the labels contained in this pool.
-The
-format directive is used as a sort of template to create new Volume names
-during automatic Volume labeling.
+ This directive specifies the format of the labels contained in this
+ pool. The format directive is used as a sort of template to create new
+ Volume names during automatic Volume labeling.
The {\bf format} should be specified in double quotes, and consists of
letters, numbers and the special characters hyphen ({\bf -}), underscore
config) file. The exact parameters (Client, FileSet, ...) that you define are
not important as you can either modify them manually before running the job or
if you use the {\bf restore} command, explained below, Bacula will
-automatically set them for you.
+automatically set them for you. In fact, you can no longer simply run a restore
+job. You must use the restore command.
Since Bacula is a network backup program, you must be aware that when you
restore files, it is up to you to ensure that you or Bacula have selected the
\item [mark]
\index[dir]{mark }
- The {\bf mark} command allows you to mark files to be restored. It takes a
+ The {\bf mark} command allows you to mark files to be restored. It takes a
single argument which is the filename or directory name in the current
directory to be marked for extraction. The argument may be a wildcard
specification, in which case all files that match in the current directory
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