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. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
