[Bacula-users] recover from connection loss?

2005-06-05 Thread Timm Reinstorf
Hi all, since this is my first post to this list, let me first thank you a lot for developing/supporting this nice software bacula! I am a bacula newbie and just started to use it doing backups of my home systems. My question is, if it is generally possible for the file-daemon to recover

Re: [Bacula-users] recover from connection loss?

2005-06-05 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, Timm Reinstorf wrote: Hi all, ... My question is, if it is generally possible for the file-daemon to recover from a lost network connection during a backup job. Yes, but this takes a while. Default timeout is two hours. There are reasons for that long timeout period, but don't ask

Re: [Bacula-users] recover from connection loss?

2005-06-05 Thread Timm Reinstorf
Hello, thanks for your answers. Arno Lehmann wrote: 3) the backup was done to tapes. Is it possible to reclaim the space used by the now aborted job, without loosing data on the tape from previous jobs? In theory this is possible in one certain case. Bacula itself doesn't support this,

Re: [Bacula-users] recover from connection loss?

2005-06-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 05 June 2005 14:52, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, Timm Reinstorf wrote: Hi all, ... My question is, if it is generally possible for the file-daemon to recover from a lost network connection during a backup job. Yes, but this takes a while. Default timeout is two hours. There