Hello, 19.11.2009 10:07, Christian Gaul wrote: > Amongst many other clients, i backup my workstation using bacula (in > this case 3.0.3, but i've been seeing this since i started using bacula > with version 2.2 something). > > I can see the job for my client in the director, it is in the status > "Waiting for client XXX to connect to storage YYY", and it has been in > that status since i turned it off (around 13 hours ago). I am unable to > cancel the job, because it is not running or scheduled and none of the > other jobs on the director were able to start, they are all "waiting for > execution" and older jobs have been canceled (thanks for fixing the > canceled email notification with 3.0.3 btw) which means that, on this > director, i have not had nightly backups run on any of my clients, on > any of my SDs because a single client got turned off inbetween the > director initializing the job and the client making the connection to > the SD.
The way I do things: - use concurrent jobs to make sure stalled ones don't stop all the other jobs - use a "Run Script" in the jobs where I back up machines that may be offline or turned off, that basically just pings them and fails the job if no success. - set up those jobs to be retried a few times with reasonable interval, so if a laptop comes in or a desktop is turned on, it will be backed up automatically. Works quite well... Cheers, Arno -- Arno Lehmann IT-Service Lehmann Sandstr. 6, 49080 Osnabrück www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
