On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:44:27 Bastian Friedrich wrote:
> Hi Eric et al.,
>
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Eric Bollengier wrote:
> > Hello Bastian,
> >
> > Le Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:14:40 Bastian Friedrich, vous avez écrit :
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > currently, Bacula accepts a "Spool data" flag for storages within job
> > > ressources, and in Run statements in a schedule. Modifying the Spooling
> > > statement while calling "run" inside bconsole is not available.
> > >
> > > Doing so is sensible in a number of cases; often, Full backups may be
> > > non-spooled, while incrementals should be spooled. Defining a Job as
> > > "to disk" per default, but enabling spooling when running the same job
> > > to tape, is quite sensible.
> > >
> > > The attached patch
> > > a) adds a "spooldata={yes|1|no|0}" to the run statement on the bconsole
> > > CLI
> > > b) adds a "Spool data" "mod" option (number 9)
> >
> > I would say that it's a good idea to keep this menu simple as possible...
> > Spooling or not a job depending on the time, the weather, or maybe the
> > new american president is a quite advance feature. (i like it, i've added
> > this option in other bacula places). But, i prefere keep this option only
> > for command line.
> >
> > What do you think ?
> > [...]
> >
> > > c) displays the current "Spooling: {yes|no}" in the
> > > display_job_parameters function
>
> I neither need nor wish this "mod" option. It would be absolutely fine for
> me not to offer this.
>
> Nonetheless, I think it is a good idea to _display_ a configuration
> modified by the run arguments (which resulted in my "c)"). It is also a
> good idea to be able to modify configuration items that are displayed there
> (why else would I display them, after all?), which resulted in implementing
> (b).
>
> The simplicity you request is absolutely a valid point; on the other hand,
> I think that all other central options of jobs can be modified in that
> menu. Spooling _is_ a central option in some scenarios.
>
> I will be happy to see only a) going upstream :)) As I said, I do not need
> b) and c)A patch that just adds a command line spooling option (no prompts, ...) would be something I would be in favor of adding. Best regards, Kern > > Thx & Best regards > Bastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
