Fundamentals: Pruning

To keep the Catalog to a manageable size, the backup information should be removed (pruned) from the Catalog after the defined File and Job Retention Periods. Bacula by default automatically prunes the Catalog database entries according to the retention periods you define.

The Pruning chapter will give you more details about the pruning process and will assist you to choose between manual pruning and automatic pruning.

Pruning by default occurs at the end of a Job. When doing some tests or if you only have few jobs a day, this could be fine. But as soon as the number of jobs is growing, you would prefer to manage pruning another way to let your Catalog do its best for the backup jobs, not for the database administrative tasks. For more details, click here.

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