On 2011-03-11, at 9:20 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: > On 02/28/2011 11:10 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote: >> I'm testing Bacula, so this is not a production setup and I ran into >> an issue, problem, bug, I'm not sure. During my testing, I'm backing up >> a file system of about 700gb to a disk. A FULL backup took around 21 >> hours with compression turned on. While this was happening the >> remaining backup jobs were queued waiting for the big job to finish. >> Once the big 700gb job was done the remaining jobs ran and all was well. >> >> The problem came when it was time to do the big job again, I thought it >> would have ran an incremental as all the other backup jobs have done, >> but bacula decided to re-run a FULL job again. I'm not sure why or >> where to look to try and figure out why. Anyone have any thoughts? >> >> Some other minor questions.. >> >> Does bacula use the /etc/dumpdates file? (I don't think so) >> >> Are there any limitations to file, folder or file system sizes that >> bacula can't do? >> >> Thank you! >> > > ok, at first I thought it was a changed fileset that was causing the > FULL backup to run again, but it seems that is not it. This is what > I've noticed. > > When backing up a huge file system for the first time, if the backup is > still running when the other jobs are scheduled to start, bacula with > queue up the machine again thinking it needs another full backup, > probably because the first full backup as not finished. If I'm not > explaining this very well I'm sorry, but here is the director status and > you should see what I mean. > > 18 Full mtlcad2.2011-03-10_13.39.51_04 is running > 19 Increme mtl-backup2.2011-03-10_23.05.00_06 is waiting execution > 20 Increme lod.2011-03-10_23.05.00_07 is waiting execution > 21 Full mtlcad2.2011-03-10_23.05.00_08 is waiting execution > > Is there a bacula option I can set that says do not run any jobs for a > client that has a job currently running? > > I hope this makes sense. > > mike > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Colocation vs. Managed Hosting > A question and answer guide to determining the best fit > for your organization - today and in the future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > Hello Mike,
I do this by setting this in my jobdef. Allow Duplicate Jobs = No Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = Yes James ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
