Morning all, I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I'm looking at running the Windows version of the FD within the Windows 2000 cluster service.
This looks to be possible, with the cluster service handling the stopping & starting of the process and if the configuration is stored on a drive which the cluster has control of, then the config can fail over with the process. Windows lists the requirements for a cluster-unaware application to be clustered as follows: > * The application must be able to store its data in a configurable > location. Check - config file is a command line parameter > The application must use TCP/IP to connect with clients. Check > Clients must reconnect in the event of intermittent network failure. This might be a problem - in my experience, a reset of the TCP connection will cause the job to terminate. There is an option to rerun failed jobs, but it would be nicer if the director and sd could hold off terminating the job for a minute or so whilst they try to re-establish the connection. If a job is re-run, presumably it is re-run from the beginning, so if we were doing a backup of 190GiB of data onto a 200GiB tape, and it got to 180GiB and then the cluster node went down, when bacula reruns the job and connects to the fd again (now running on the backup cluster node) presumably it will begin the job from the start and overflow the tape (although I suppose it could rerun it as a differential...). Has this ever been considered, and how much work would it be to implement? -- Russell Howe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
