cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Catalog Retention

boaz
Level 2

Looking at the catalog folder, I can see that only the daily catalogs from the last 30 days, and the catalogs of the end of previous months. I would like to modify it, but cannot figure out where.

In the Backupexec settings, there is no checkmark next to "truncate catalogs after", so it must be somewhere else.

1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

Accepted Solutions

pkh
Moderator
Moderator
   VIP    Certified

You are correct in that the catalog is deleted when the media is overwritten/deleted. There is no way prevent this. The catalog is useless when there is no media to restore from

View solution in original post

4 REPLIES 4

Riyaj_S
Moderator
Moderator
Employee Accredited Certified

Set the appropriate date range in the restore wizard selection ( from: )

image.png

Thanks and Regards,

Riyaj

I did set the start date, but the available restore dates have gaps.

My new theory is that if a media is overwritten, the catalogs for that media are automatically erased. Is it true? If yes, any way to disable it? it is useful sometimes to know when a file got deleted.

pkh
Moderator
Moderator
   VIP    Certified

You are correct in that the catalog is deleted when the media is overwritten/deleted. There is no way prevent this. The catalog is useless when there is no media to restore from

Thank you, that answers my question.