On Sunday 05 June 2005 14:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: > Hello, > > Timm Reinstorf wrote: > > Hi all, > > ... > > > My question is, if it is generally possible for the file-daemon to > > recover from a lost network connection during a backup job. > > Yes, but this takes a while. Default timeout is two hours. There are > reasons for that long timeout period, but don't ask _me_ ;-)
Internet standards ... > > > What happened here: > > I started a full backup of a Windows XP computer (file daemon) to a > > linux computer (running the director and storage daemon). After several > > hours the network connection was lost (lets say physically). The file > > daemon on windows aborts the job (with status "error"), while the > > director and the storage daemon still saying, that "the job is running". > > > > Questions: > > 1) is this normal behaviour, that a connection loss of the file daemon > > results in the abort of the backup job? > > Yes. Everything else would only make things much more difficult and you > wouldn't gain a lot. > > > 2) is it possible to resume such a job? > > No. But you can have failed jobs rerun. > > > 3) the backup was done to tapes. Is it possible to reclaim the space > > used by the now aborted job, without loosing data on the tape from > > previous jobs? > > In theory this is possible in one certain case. Bacula itself doesn't > support this, though. > > The one case is hat you only have one job writing to a tape > simultaneously, and no other jobs running afterwards. Then, you could > set the file number in the catalog to the value before the job started, > wind the tape to that place, and write an EOF/EOD marker. > > I wouldn't try that. > > If the job already used up more than one tape, you can simply delete the > job from the catalog and prune the volumes - the used volume should be > purged afterwards. > > All this is possible when you have multiple jobs writing to tape > simultaneously, i.e. when running jobs in parallel and not spooling. > > > These questions may sound silly, and may be answered in the > > documentation, but I haven't found anything. > > They're, to my knowledge, not answerded explicitly. > > Arno > > > Greetings, > > > > Timm > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you > > shotput > > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge > > track? > > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to > > win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 > > _______________________________________________ > > Bacula-users mailing list > > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How far can you shotput a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge track? If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r=20 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
