Hi, On 3/30/2007 4:56 PM, Joseph Wright wrote: > On Mar 27, 2007, at 3:43 AM, Alan Brown wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Joseph Wright wrote: >> >>> A useful feature would be to halt a job and then resume it, for when >>> restarting bacula. In fact I think it should happen >>> by default that if a job gets cut off for some reason, such as a >>> network timeout, it should be possible to resume >>> later and only explicitly cancel a job. Reloading the config is said >>> to have unforeseen side effects, and if I have >>> backups continuously running it means I have to cancel jobs in order >>> to restart. For a site running lots of backups >>> around the clock, this could well be a showstopper. >> Make the reload a higher or lower priority admin job than the >> backups, depending on your needs. That way you can ensure nothing >> else is running when it happens. >> > > Is this feature documented somewhere? Because it doesn't seem to be > in the manual that you can schedule a reload.
Attaching a priority to a reload would require an admin job running a command like 'echo reload | bconsole'. Of course, when the DIR crashes, you will still lose all the scheduled jobs, but at least no running jobs will be affected. If you use a script that stores the currently waiting jobs in a file, starts a watchdog script, the does the reload you'll be even safer. The watchdog script should wait some time, check if the DIR is running, and, if it is not, send the saved job list to the admin and try to restart the DIR. For the paranoid with jobs running 24 hours a day :-) Arno > (\_/) > (o,o) > ()_() Joseph Wright > " " > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 -- IT-Service Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arno Lehmann http://www.its-lehmann.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
