On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 11:29:41 AM UTC+2, Jörg Steffens wrote: > On 31.08.2017 at 13:05 wrote [email protected]: > > Hi, > > > > I'm a new Bareos user so I would like to start by thanking you for > > the support and help you offer to the community. > > > > I'm having an issue understanding the behavior of client initiated > > connections. I've setup a test environment where I'm trying to backup > > laptops. Since I'm dealing with devices that aren't supposed to be > > available all the time, I thought it would be a good idea to let the > > clients establish the connection to the bareos director. What I don't > > understand is that if the laptop isn't available, the backup job will > > fail. The way I see it is that it shouldn't mark the job as failed > > because the client is explicitly configured as it is the one which > > initiate the connection so the bareos director should notice that. > > This is exactly the implemented behavior. A job is configured for a > specific time, it can not be startet, so the job will be marked as failed. > > > One more thing, if I get failed jobs messages every time the schedule > > runs and the laptops aren't connected, wouldn't it be the same as I > > don't use the client initiated connection in the first place? > > Client Initiated Connections have been added primarily to have a more > flexible network setup. With it, you are able to cope with changing > client IP adresses. Also some firewall settings prefer this setup. > > For the behavior you want, a work around is described at "When Client is > present, trigger backup" in > https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/backup_dr_bareos_scripting/attachments/slides/1445/export/events/attachments/backup_dr_bareos_scripting/slides/1445/Interacting_with_Bareos.pdf > about how to trigger backups only when the client is present. > > > regards, > Jörg > > -- > Jörg Steffens [email protected] > Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221 630693-91 > http://www.bareos.com Fax: +49 221 630693-10 > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 > Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH > Geschäftsführer: > S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, Jörg Steffens, P. Storz
Thanks a lot for the explanation. It helped. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
