I have below a few rather spesific questions about Bacula's RunScript and related commands. Before bothering the devel-list, I decided to try if someone in the user list could answer these:
-1- Is there any difference if I use RunScript or RunBeforeJob directive to run commands before execution of a job? To me they look two different ways of specifying the same thing. I think RunBeforeJob (etc) existed before the more versatile RunScript, so is RunBeforeJob (etc) basically a piece of history that may be obsoleted in the future (since everything could be done with RunScript too) or does RunBeforeJob offer something that cannot be done with RunScript? Is use of either one recommended when writing a new configuration? -2- Bacula 5.0.x manual says that possible values for "RunsWhen" in RunScript definition are: Before|After|Always|AfterVSS What is the option "Always" here? Is it "run before and after job", or what does it mean? Maybe this is not so important for me, I just got curious... -3- For server-side scripts, %v is substituted with volume name in command invocation. In before- scripts, this propably is the first volume that will be used for the job, but how about in the after- scripts, if the job spanned over multiple volumes? Is it the first or the last or the last full volume used, or something not-so-accurately specified? -4- >From the manual: ---- Run Before Job = <command> The specified command is run as an external program prior to running the current Job. Run After Job = <command> The specified command is run as an external program if the current job terminates normally ---- For file devices, SD has mount/unmount commands for mounting (external) disks. Is SD functionality considered as "a part of job" referred above, so is SD's mount command run only after the RunBeforeJob command specified in the director's job configuration, and SD's unmount command before director's RunAfterJob command? Or vice versa? I'm sorry if this looks like nitpicking, but I'm setting up a system to automatically power up - mount - unmount - power off external disk subsystems used as a backup media. So the execution order etc in some special cases may be important. Regards, Timo ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
