Re: Very long retention time
Mehrdad Ravanbod <[email protected]>
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Thank you Josip Appreciate your response, so if i understand correctly the whole ten year backup data need not be kept in DB?? Not sure about the bootstrap file and the rest though, new to bacula and trying to figure it out as yet Regards Mehrdad On 2024-08-14 16:10, Josip Deanovic via Bacula-users wrote: > On 2024-08-14 14:21, Mehrdad Ravanbod wrote: >> Thanx for the response, appreciate it >> >> As to media, plan is to put it on disk, with some sort of raid(1, 5, >> 6) to ensure safety/integrity, that is where the files are right now >> >> as to the amount of data, it is not that huge, weekly full backups is >> around 50 GB, and it lends it self well to compression, and data does >> not change that much so incre. backups should be small, my concern is >> mainly the database(using postgresql) and whether Bacula can handle >> such retention times of say 3560+ days >> >> I have seen reten times of one year but that is about it, if anyone >> have experience of handling longer retention times and care to share >> their experiences or config files for the jobs, I would be grateful > > > Hello Mehrdad, > > The documentation says nothing about limit regarding retention. > At least I didn't notice such limit. > Retention is specified as a time data type. > For the time data type, the documentation on the page 217 states: > > time > A time or duration specified in seconds. The time is stored > internally as a 64 bit integer > value, but it is specified in two parts: a number part and a > modifier part. The number > can be an integer or a floating point number. If it is entered in > floating point notation, it > will be rounded to the nearest integer. The modifier is mandatory > and follows the number > part, either with or without intervening spaces. > > This is the relevant document for the version 15.0.x: > https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/main.pdf > > > However, longer the retention, more data will be kept in the Bacula > catalog. > If that poses a problem, a solution would be to prune the data from the > catalog and store the volumes (preferably together with the bootstrap > files) and using bscan tool to load the data on the volume back into the > catalog if needed. > > It would be a good idea to read this as well: > https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/main.pdf#subsection.22.2.4 > > > Regards > -- ________________________________________________________ Ampfield Aktiebolag Mehrdad Ravanbod System administrator _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users