On Friday 23 February 2007 19:58, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Ralf Gross wrote:
> > Mike Hanby schrieb:
> >> I'm testing out bacula (a newbie) in an environment with Linux and
> >> Windows XP 64bit systems.
> >>
> >> I'm running bacula 2.0.2 with -dir, -fd and -sd on a Linux server, and
> >> -fd on each of the Windows and other Linux systems. The backups are
> >> being stored onto a 500 GB hard drive.
> >>
> >> I have a full backup running from one of the Windows machines, it's
> >> about 15 GB's into the backup. I noticed that there are several other
> >> jobs in the queue "waiting execution".
> >>
> >> I changed Maximum Current Jobs from 1 to 2 in bacula-dir.conf.
> >>
> >> In order for this change to take affect, I need to restart bacula-dir.
> >
> > Try issuing the reload command in bconsole. This way you don't have to
> > restart the dir.
>
> BE CAREFUL with this. If you make a mistake, the director will bomb out
> (the same way it would if you attempted to start it with a bad
> directive). I believe there was some discussion about fixing this (and
> in fact, my current director 2.0.2 says something about bad directives
> and reusing the old ones, but IIRC it segfaults after that -- guess I
> should have reported that but never thought about it).

Yes, it is never too late to do so.

>
> >> Do I need to pause the existing job before I restart bacula-dir, I don't
> >> see a command that will do this.
> >>
> >> If I just restart bacula-dir, will the job resume normal operation once
> >> it restarts?
> >
> > No, I'm pretty sure the job will end with an error message.
>
> Indeed -- the jobs will error and die on restart.
>
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