OK, then I should file a bug report if I am finding that multiple levels of 
JobDefs aren't working? My top level JobDefs has the backup type specified 
and if I have a Job reference a JobDefs 2 levels down from the top I get an 
error from bareos that the backup type is not specified.

On Thursday, October 24, 2024 at 3:55:07 AM UTC-5 Bruno Friedmann 
(bruno-at-bareos) wrote:

> Hi Jon, yes a JobDefs can reference a JobDefs see 
>
> https://docs.bareos.org/bareos-23/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Job_JobDefs
> but also take into account the restriction about some parameter that will 
> not be replaced but added ;-)
>
> I personally prefer to have dedicated jobdefs with only one level to 
> simplify the human comprehension of the configuration ;-)
> On Wednesday 23 October 2024 at 20:34:10 UTC+2 Jon Schewe wrote:
>
>> I found that I can have a Job reference a JobDefs defs1 and that 
>> reference  JobDefs defs2 and that appears to work.
>> However having a Job reference JobDefs defs1 which references JobDefs 
>> defs2 which references JobDefs defs3. 
>>
>> Is it expected that a JobDefs can reference another JobDefs?
>> If yes, is it expected that nesting more than 1 level doesn't work?
>>
>> Having this nesting is handy to avoid duplicating configuration data, 
>> however I understand that this may be hard to implement.
>>
>>
>> Jon
>>
>>

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