I also very much question the idea of this. I would suggest that it's best to not run bacula over this link but instead rsync the data to a local server and then just backup the location where the data was rsynced too. The bigger issue will be restores over a 1mb/s link....
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:37 -0400, jon pounder wrote: > On 06/28/2011 09:32 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > > On 06/28/11 08:40, John Drescher wrote: > >> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Phil Stracchino<ala...@metrocast.net> > >> wrote: > >>> Adding a data limit to a Bacula job really won't do a lot to work around > >>> the unreliability of the link, it'll just make the job terminate early > >>> if you COULD have completed it in one shot. I'm not sure this idea > >>> makes sense. > >>> > >> I think the idea is to terminate early without error. So that the next > >> incremental ... can pickup where the full left off. > > Oh, I totally get that, yes. I just think it's the wrong way to solve > > the problem. It's a Band-Aid approach. > > > > The better way to solve the problem would be to come up with some kind > > of resume-job-from-checkpoint functionality, but that of course would be > > a fairly major project. > > > > > > Doesn't that kind of mess up a backup integrity if both incrementals > don't cover the same time period ? By definition would the second > incremental not have to start over again ? > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. > Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security > threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes > sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-devel mailing list > Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason A. Kates (ja...@kates.org) Fax: 208-975-1514 Phone: 660-960-0070 ============================================================================ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
