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 >> >> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/c7ed2679-6173-41d3-909f-96acc9614d26n%40googlegroups.com.
