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Hi *,

as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my
food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What
is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all
together?

sascha
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Sascha Wilde
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and obviously crash, whereas the C program will do something obscure."
-- Java Language Tutorial

Hi,

On 6/18/2007 12:02 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
Hi *,

as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my
food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What
is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all
together?

If you really want to disable recycling, you can set "Recycle=No" and
"AutoPrune=No" (Hope I've got the names right) and/or set the retention
times to 0.

The better solution, IMO, is to set the periods up according to your
acual needs, though.

Arno

sascha

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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote:

as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my
food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What
is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all
together?

If you set all three retention variables (File, Job and Volume) to the
same value then there will be no problem.

Ditto if File and Job are set longer than Volume, as Pruning the volume
will automatically result in files and jobs on it being removed from the
database.

Arno Lehmann <al < at > it...> wrote:
On 6/18/2007 12:02 PM, Sascha Wilde wrote:
as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my
food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What
is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all
together?

If you really want to disable recycling, you can set "Recycle=No" and

I'm using DVD-R as media, so recycling isn't really possible anyway.

"AutoPrune=No" (Hope I've got the names right) and/or set the retention
times to 0.

Thanks! After experiencing the problems I set AutoPrune = no already,
I just wasn't sure what the right value for * Retention would be.

The better solution, IMO, is to set the periods up according to your
acual needs, though.

As stated before recycling isn't an issue, so only the database size
is an possible issue to me. But a quick estimate tells me, that this
isn't a real problem either (and in case it becomes one I can still
reactivate pruning, right?).

sascha
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Sascha Wilde
Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

Alan Brown <ajb2 < at > ms...> wrote:

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote:

as my other mail shows I successfully used file retention top shoot my
food -- so I'm thinking of deactivating retention all together. What
is the value I must set for File and Job Retention, to disable it all
together?

If you set all three retention variables (File, Job and Volume) to the
same value then there will be no problem.

There still we be the problem, that the information I want to keep
will be lost from the database after some time (what ever value I
set).

The question was, what value must I set this variables to, to disable
pruning completely.

sascha
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Sascha Wilde : "I heard that if you play the Windows CD backward, you
: get a satanic message. But that's nothing compared to
: when you play it forward: It installs Windows...."
: -- G. R. Gaudreau

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Sascha Wilde wrote:

If you set all three retention variables (File, Job and Volume) to the
same value then there will be no problem.

There still we be the problem, that the information I want to keep
will be lost from the database after some time (what ever value I
set).

yes, at the same time the media is recycled

The question was, what value must I set this variables to, to disable
pruning completely.

Setting them to zero will disable pruning.