Unwanted files are kept indefinitely
Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 3:48 pm
I was trying to understand Advanced Sessions (again!) when I got some unexpected results.
I recreated a simple job to demonstrate one of the problems as follows...
Simple sessions based backup of c:\test1\testfile1.txt which keeps 2 sessions & prunes unwanted sessions.
Ran job.
Changed files to include all in C:\test1 except testfile1.txt
Ran job 5 more times with an additional file in C:\test1 each time.
When I try to restore a file there are only the last 2 sessions to choose from & neither of them contains testfile1.txt. However, when I look at all sessions, it is possible to restore testfile1.txt because it still exists in the zip files and must be in the log file long after I flagged it as unwanted.
I would have expected the first zip file to have been pruned somewhere arount the 3rd session.
Why is is kept?
Cheers
Ian
I recreated a simple job to demonstrate one of the problems as follows...
Simple sessions based backup of c:\test1\testfile1.txt which keeps 2 sessions & prunes unwanted sessions.
Ran job.
Changed files to include all in C:\test1 except testfile1.txt
Ran job 5 more times with an additional file in C:\test1 each time.
When I try to restore a file there are only the last 2 sessions to choose from & neither of them contains testfile1.txt. However, when I look at all sessions, it is possible to restore testfile1.txt because it still exists in the zip files and must be in the log file long after I flagged it as unwanted.
I would have expected the first zip file to have been pruned somewhere arount the 3rd session.
Why is is kept?
Cheers
Ian