Hi all, I've pretty much made my transition from Amanda to Bacula, and I'm pretty happy with it. I'm also starting to get the feel of the manual - everything is in there, it's just a bit hard to find sometimes. :)
I'd just like to run by one simple question here about failed jobs. During my testing, and occasionally during real runs I'll have a botched job. Some just re-run later, some are mistakes. Here's a real-world example that has me a little stumped... I wanted to get a Catalog backup onto one of my Daily tapes (I'm forcing fulls, diffs and incrementals onto different pools). My catalog backup is still using the default once/week schedule and wanting to go onto the Weekly pool. I decided to run it today with a Daily tape in. It failed, and Bacula wanted me to mount the Weekly tape. This makes sense. So I've gone and stopped the director, edited the config to temporarily stash the Catalog backup into the Daily pool, and then restarted. It still wanted the Weekly tape, so I used the bconsole "list jobs" command to find any failed Catalog backups, and then the "delete" command to nuke them. I assume this removes any reference to those jobs from the Catalog and whatever the scheduler may know about it. Correct? Is this the proper way to clean up after an "oops"? I also see quite a few failures that I no longer care about in "list jobs", should I manually walk through those and kill them? I know I should have started my production run by purging the db and starting over, but between Amanda having a rather spectacular failure and losing a drive on the backup server I decided to just keep going with what I'd already started. Full dumps take about 24 hours since we have many remote hosts, so I was trying to avoid getting rid of a perfectly good tape with good full backups on it... Thanks, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
