Hello,
On 25.10.2005 06:41, Ross Boylan wrote:
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:51:27PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote:
Hello,
On 23.10.2005 06:47, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have a bunch of jobs/filesets I want to backup. Since this is the
first time, I'd like to test them first.
Potentially, I could get job 1 the way I like it and start it while
working on the next jobs specifications.
Is there a way to do so, and is it a good idea?
I would be rather careful with this... see below.
First, will bacula be able to service an estimate command from the
console at the same time it is running a real backup?
Basically, yes, but I never tried if this is influenced by the maximum
concurrent jobs for the client and job in question. You could try it.
Even if I could get both things happening at once, the speed would
probably be unbearable on my present system....
Well, that would depend on the client system, of course...
Second, if I edit the direct configuration I need to get it reloaded,
which appears to require a restart of the director. I suspect this
would trash the backup job that was in progress. Will it?
Definitely. That's why there is a reload command. BUT reload can cause a
director crash later.
As far as I understand, once a job is prepared for running (2 hours
before start time, IIRC) and you change that jobs's configuration the
DIR can (or will) crash when the job is actually started.
Is there any way to cancel a job that has been scheduled? I couldn't
find a way; bconsole's cancel command seemed only to affect "active"
jobs (which already had jobid's).
None that I know of.
Modifying other resources *should* work, though. The problem is that in
many cases resources are shared by jobs, like clients, filesets, storage.
Arno
It sounds as if I'm lucky I didn't try this. Thanks for the info.
This behaviour can be a bit disturbing whan you've got man jobs
running... but as long as Kern knows about it I guess we can be more or
less sure that it will be fixed eventually. :-)
Arno
Ross
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