On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Chris Rodgers wrote: >> You need to add a RunBeforeJob which will exit with an error if >> ngorongoro is not online. Ther ewas some discussion on this in the past >> relating to laptops and there may already be a script for it somewhere. > > This sounds like a bacula bug to me. Surely bacula should be able to > cope if one of the client machines is unavailable for some reason.
Bacula will give up and continue on other machines.... eventually. However for a machine which is known to not always be there, it is better to test in the first place or shorten the "giveup" timeout from default settings. > If it cannot, it makes it very easy to perfom a denial of service > attack. It could also mean that in a larger office / etc. where machines > are occasionally unavailable for some reason that the machines last in > the backup list are rather likely not to be backed up. That seems quite > a significant flaw to me. If you have concurrency set high enough and the max start delays set long enough, the backups will run... :-) >> Possibly, but more importantly these jobs should never had shown as >> finished on the Director status until the Storage daemon said they were >> finished - the fact that they're wedged means that the BackupCatalog job >> should never have started in the first place.... > > To my mind, the correct behaviour would be for the director to terminate > the job after FDConnectTimeout has elapsed and then to inform the > storage daemon that the job has been cancelled / had an error. At the > moment, it looks like the director cancels the job but leaves the > storage daemon in an inconsistent state. "This should not be happening" and if it is occuring with 2.0 then it's definitely worthy of a bug report. As for older versions, "Your Milage May Vary". AB ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
