On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 07:17:23PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >On Monday 09 March 2009 18:39:49 Graham Keeling wrote:
> >>On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:56:36PM +0100, Kern Sibbald wrote:
> >>>On Monday 09 March 2009 17:40:15 Graham Keeling wrote:
> >>>>Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>>I have come across some problems involving a single client, a single
> >>>>fileset, and more than one job definition.
> >>>>
> >>>>My setup...
> >>>>
> >>>>Client: myclient
> >>>>FileSet: myfileset
> >>>>
> >>>>Job: myjob1
> >>>>Job: myjob2
> >>>Bacula does not support this option.
> >>I don't believe that this is made very clear in the documentation.
> >
> >Yes, that is very likely the case, but with a program as complex as Bacula 
> >and already 800 pages of free documentation ...
> >
> >>It does appear to be *trying* to support it, as some parts of the code 
> >>that
> >>figure out dependent jobs take note of the job name, though others do not.
> >
> >I wouldn't exactly say that it is trying to support it, but rather that 
> >since the program is so complicated, and I try not to restrict it too 
> >much, there are places where it can seem to work, but it is just not 
> >designed to do so (at least at the moment), and thus it will not work.  It 
> >isn't that I don't want it to work, but there is only so much that the 
> >developers can do in the time we have.
> >
> >Unfortunate what you are trying to do is simply not possible in the way 
> >you are trying to do it with the current code.
> 
> What the original poster could do to achieve the same result:
> 
>   Have two FileSets with identical content but different names.
> 
> I am pretty sure the goal is to manage just one FileSet.  I suspect you 
> can do this with the existing Bacula directives.

This is what I'm going to have to do for now - have duplicate filesets with
different names.


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