Hi at least you want  want to expose first a simple case here. 
How you think you should work with example, and the problem you're 
experimenting...



On Thursday 24 October 2024 at 19:32:42 UTC+2 Jon Schewe wrote:

> 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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