On 11/18/24 14:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
Hello.
I'm asking because I'm sure I'm not the first to encounter this problem.
A client is powered on, sooner or later Bacula tries a backup and it
finally starts, however it does not complete because the user powers
down the machine again.
How did you solve?
Are you sure they are powering down? In most cases, the client going
into sleep mode will appear to Bacula as though the machine was powered
down. Bacula requires a TCP socket that stays up for the entire job.
When background tasks (such as bacula-fd) do not prevent sleep mode, the
client enters sleep mode and bacula-fd is paused and/or sleep mode turns
off the WiFi transmitter.
In most cases the sleep mode issue can be dealt with, but there is no
way to deal with the user physically powering down the machine, other
than telling them not to do that.
If you are trying to deal with laptops that users take in and out of the
office, then look into the "Reschedule On Error" directive for the Job
resource in the Bacula docs. It can reschedule failed jobs at regular
intervals, and that might help.
In the user workstation case I've mostly dealt with it by NOT backing up
user machines. :) We use a combination of private cloud storage and VPN
access to file severs for user data, so their laptops don't really need
backups.
Ideally Bacula would be able to postpone shutdown until the job is
finished, but I think I'm asking to much.
Letting the user know that a backup is running would be better than
nothing.
I tried installing tray monitor: I see the black icon and I hoped it
would animate or change colour when a job was running; alas, it
doesn't. The users would need to click on it and check and it's asking
too much on them.
Any idea?
How are you coping with this scenario?
bye & Thanks
av.
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