Hello,
erm, a question for the manual writers first: Should this problem be
discussed in the manual, or even in the book? It comes up quite often
recently.
On 2/12/2007 9:06 AM, Holden Hao wrote:
> I am trying to backup several PCs (Linux and Windows) into a backup
> server which runs the director and the storage daemon. When running
> individual test jobs, Bacula performs well. But what I am trying to
> do is have Bacula director order a daily backup to all FDs at 12 NN.
> However, when one PC is not connected to the network, Bacula seems to
> hang and I can not get into bconsole. And when I am in bconsole when
> the schedule is run, it becomes unresponsive. I am using Bacula
> 1.36.3 on Ubuntu.
>
> Am I correct to assume that when all of my FDs are ordered to backup,
> the director will queue them up and waits for the first FD to finish
> the backup then goes to the next and so on up the queue?
Unless you set up Bacula to run jobs in parallel, you are correct.
> What happens
> when a defined FD is not on the network?
The DIR waits for quite a while before it decids the client can not be
reached.
>
> I would appreciate if anyone can point me to a direction leading to a
> solution. Thanks.
The best solution, IMO, consists of two parts:
- Run jobs in parallel. Maximum Concurrent Jobs is the kyword you need
to search in the manual.
- Have a Run Before Job that checks if the client is available, for
example by pinging it. A return code of anything but 0 will cause the
job to fail. This can be combined with setting retries for the jobs.
Arno
>
>
> Holden
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> I already have
>
> FDConnectTimeout = 1 minutes
> SDConnectTimeout = 1 minutes
>
> in the Director resource in my bacula-dir.conf
>
> I also have
>
> SD Connect Timeout = 5 minutes
>
> in my FileDaemon resource in $clients-fd.conf
>
> Here are some relevant settings in my bacula-dir.conf
>
> Client {
> Name = $client-fd # I have 15 clients (similar config)
> Address = $clienthostname
> FDPort = 9102
> Catalog = MyCatalog
> Password = "password"
> File Retention = 30 days
> Job Retention = 6 months
> AutoPrune = yes
>
> }
>
> JobDefs {
> Name = "DefaultJob"
> Type = Backup
> Level = Incremental
> FileSet = "Linux Set"
> Schedule = "WeeklyCycle"
> Storage = File
> Messages = Standard
> Pool = Default
> Full Backup Pool = Full-Pool
> Incremental Backup Pool = Inc-Pool
> Differential Backup Pool = Diff-Pool
> Priority = 10
> Reschedule on Error = yes
> Reschedule Interval = 1 hours
> Reschedule Times = 3
> }
>
> Job {
> Name = "$client-job" #again 15 of these
> JobDefs = "DefaultJob"
> Client = $client-fd
> Write Bootstrap = "/var/lib/bacula/$client.bsr"
>
> Schedule {
> Name = "WeeklyCycle"
> Run = Level=Full 1st sun at 12:05
> Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 12:05
> Run = Level=Incremental mon-sat at 11:05
> }
>
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