Hello, I have been using bacula for more than a year to back up a small number of machines. I am perfectly happy with the software, despite a certain initial difficulty in setting up a working configuration.
When I recently upgraded to 2.0 I found out the hard way that the RunClientAfterJob directive semantics changed quite a bit with the new version: while in 1.38 the script was run after all activities requiring a connection with the client were over (including data and attribute despooling), in 2.0 the script is run as soon as data spooling is complete. I did not find any mention of this fact in the release notes, but from a couple of posts on the devel list I got the impression that this was a deliberate design decision made in order to allow restarting applications on the client as soon as possible. However, this causes nasty effects when ClientRunAfterJob is used to remotely switch off the client (think backing up powered off workstations in an office at night, with a RunBefore script to switch them on via wake-on-lan), because after despooling is complete the director complains it cannot connect to the fd and simply reschedules the job. After a big headache and lots of wasted space I ended up reverting to 1.38 FDs - which work as expected - , but this is hardly a solution. Is this a bug or a feature? If it's here to stay, is it possible to have the old behavior back (possibly via a flag in the RunScript directive)? Plus, I think there should definitely be a mention of the change somewhere in the documentation. Thanks, Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
