Re: "No files" in Bacularis for Jobs

Am 24.06.25 um 15:11 schrieb Marcin Haba:

>> ok ... so I don't have anything wrong that triggered that (?)
> 
> I don't know because we don't see your pruning settings in the
> Director configuration.

AutoPrune = yes

is set for the Client

and for 2 Pools as well, but not for the pools with the Archive Tapes.

So my issue comes from that setting in the Client, I assume.

Can't remember setting this, but who knows ...

>> I still don't fully get it:
>>
>> the volumes are in mode "Archive", so they should NOT yet been
>> overwritten (in fact they aren't: they are stored off-site).
>>
>> And even then the related "file lists" in the database are pruned?
> 
> This depends on your pruning setting, specially on the AutoPrune
> setting (and job/file retention directives as well).
> 
>> That's really new to me.
> 
> Sure. I think that many users are not aware of that until they read
> about it or until they try to restore and find no files to select for
> restoring.
> 
> This is also well described in the Bacula documentation:
> 
> "As Bacula writes files to a Volume, it keeps a list of files, jobs,
> and volumes in a database called the catalog. Among other things, the
> database helps Bacula to decide which files to back up in an
> incremental or differential backup, and helps you locate files on past
> backups when you want to restore something. However, the catalog will
> grow larger and larger as time goes on, and eventually it can become
> unacceptably large.
> 
> Bacula's process for removing entries from the catalog is called
> Pruning. The default is Automatic Pruning, which means that once a Job
> record reaches a certain age (e.g. 30 days old) and a pruning occurs,
> it will be removed from the catalog."
> 
> https://www.bacula.org/15.0.x-manuals/en/main/Automatic_Volume_Recycling.html#SECTION0031100000000000000000

understood, thanks!