Hi, 16.10.2008 18:40, T. Horsnell wrote: > Arno Lehmann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 16.10.2008 15:53, John Drescher wrote: >> >>>>> Does the first job take more than 1 day? >>>> Yes, that is true in this case. But is this making any difference ?? With >>>> running full backup there shouldn't be any next job upgraded to full prior >>>> to >>>> finish of first one. >>>> >>> The reason I ask is when the next backup is scheduled to begin if the >>> previous full is not completed the next backup will be upgraded to a >>> full. There has been some discussion of this problem on the list. I am >>> not sure of the solution to this but I will try to check the archives. >> >> From my memory: One user implemented a small run before job script >> that checks if a corresponding full for the current job is running and >> returns 1 if that's the case, thus effectively canceling the newly >> scheduled job. >> >> In some future version, some directives will be available to prevent >> the outlined scenario. I forgot which directive names were discussed, >> though... and I don't think this is in the devel manual. >> >> Arno > > I had this problem from the start. I ended up with a line in my > RunBefore script which disabled the backup job: > > echo "disable job=Job1" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole > > This disables any further scheduling of Job1 but leaves the current one > running. > > And in the RunAfter script I have > echo "run job=BackupCatalog yes" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole > echo "enable job=Job1" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole
Now this is a really slick way to solve that (works only with 2.erm... don't know now though, because job enabling/disabling wasn't always available). Let me state that I always knew that Cambridge academia was among the cleverest in the world ;-) Arno > > The BackupCatalog job is set 'enabled=no' in bacula-dir.conf > > I'm sure I saw some discussion on the devel list of upcoming facilities > which would disable a scheduled job if some other job was still running, > but I'm damned if I can find the relevant emails > > Cheers, > Terry > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
