Re: [Bacula-users] Job Retention per Job

[Martin S. <ma...@li...>]

>>>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:02:25 +0200, Andreas Kopecki said:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Is it possible to specify retention periods on a job basis? I just found a 
> setting per client. The problem is, that I have a very large file system that 
> I split into multiple parts (mainly due to awful long file selection times in 
> the restore dialog when having jobs > 1 million files). Parts of the fs 
> change constantly, while others will rarely or even never change, so I would 
> like to have different schedules (weekly full, 2weekly full, 4weekly full). 
> However, if I keep every full backup five weeks to cover a 4-weekly cycle, 
> the weekly fulls begin to choke my data store. Is there somewhere an option 
> hidden, that does job retention per job that I didn't spot?

You could run more than one bacula-fd on that machine (each on a different
port) and then have multiple Client configs to match.

__Martin