Re: [Bacula-users] "Archiving" out a tape.

[Dan L. <da...@la...>]

On 12/20/2010 11:02 PM, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
> Hi all,
> Bacula 3.0.3 server, mix of 302 and 303 clients on *NIX and Windows.
>
> I'm taking a full backup of everything, for EOY archiving purposes, and I
> was wondering should I purge the tape volume(s) created by this so as to
> make subsequent incremental and differential backups *not* refer to this
> backup.

If you do that, you will not be able to easily restore from that tape. 
You will need to use bextract, which is not something I would recommend 
to anyone.

> IOW - does "purge" make inc/diff look at the *previous* backup times when
> deciding what to do?

Yes.  That is documented in the Job Resource, under Director Configuration.

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