From: James Harper [mailto:james.har...@bendigoit.com.au] > > In an effort to work around the fact that bacula kills long-running jobs, I'm > about to partition my backups into smaller sets. For example, instead of > backing up: > > /home > > I would like to backup the content of /home as separate jobs. For example: >
Have you thought of a script that creates links to a backup directory split into the groups you want? Run the linking script to link /home/[0-9]* to /backup/0-9/, /home/[A-G]* to /backup/A-G, etc. > /home/[0-9]* > /home/[A-G]* > /home/[H-M]* > /home/[N-Q]* > /home/[R-U]* > /home/[V-Z]* > /home/[a-g]* > /home/[h-m]* > /home/[n-q]* > /home/[r-u]* > /home/[v-z]* > > I'm looking for advice for how prevent multiple jobs of different names, that > access the same client, from running simultaneously. For example, to > prevent an incremental of job "home0-9" running at the same time as a full > of job "homeA-G". > > The only method I can think of is to use a dynamic fileset in the director to > generate the different filesets, so that there's only a single named job that > backs up a different set of files on each full backup. This way the "Allow > Duplicate Jobs" setting can be effective. > Does Bacula really kill long running jobs? Or are you seeing the effect of something at layer 3 or below (eg TCP connections timing out in firewalls)? I think your dynamic fileset idea would break Bacula's 'Accurate Backup' code. If you are not using Accurate then it might work but it still seems like a lot of trouble to go to to solve this problem. If you limited the maximum jobs on the FD it would only run one at once, but if the link was broken it might fail all the jobs. Another option would be a "Run After" to start the next job. Only the first job would be scheduled, and it would run the next job in turn. Then they would all just run in series. You could even take it a step further and have the "Run After" script to retry the same job if it failed due to a connection problem, and to give up after so many retries. Maybe it could even start pinging the FD to see if it was reachable (if backing up over an unreliable link is the problem you are trying to solve). James ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct http://www.lifestylegroup.co.uk/ http://www.linkedin.com/company/39206 This e-mail is confidential and only intended for the named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately by phone or email. Please then delete it from your system. Any opinions are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Lifestyle Services Group Ltd. Please note that this e-mail and any attachments have not been encrypted. They may therefore be liable to be compromised. We do not accept any liability for any virus infection, external compromise of security or confidentiality in relation to e-mails. Lifestyle Services Group Limited (LSG) is a company registered in England and Wales No. 5114385 and is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority in respect of insurance mediation activities. Registered Office: Osprey House, Ore Close, Lymedale Business Park, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire ST5 9QD. _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
