[Bacula-users] Pruning/Purging and Volume Retention

[Graham S. <gm...@ho...>]

Hello,

Apologies if this question has been answered previously, but I'm struggling to find a definitive answer.

When a job completes and then marks a volume as purged, does it do this only for volumes in the pool used by that job and only if the job is successful, or are all volumes (regardless of pool and success of the job) affected?

I'm asking because sometimes a PC that I'm backing up isn't switched on and so the backup fails, however I believe files were removed from the catalogue making them more difficult to restore.

If purging only affects media in the pool, and only if the job completes successfully, then that's great--I can stick with correct retention periods.  Otherwise I cannot see a way around this other than increasing the retention periods and hoping that the backups will run within that time.

I'm running Bacula 5.0.2 (yes--I should upgrade!) under 32-bit GNU/Linux with MySQL.  I'm backing up to files (20GB each) using grandfather, father, son with separate pools for each type (full, diff, incr) and for each client (three clients, so nine pools in total).

Many thanks for any help.

Graham