Hello, Although I am working on a rather large project that I would like to explain a bit later when I have made some real progress (probably after the first of the year), I am thinking about doing a little mini-project to add a feature that has always bothered me, and that is the fact that Bacula can at times when there are failures or bottlenecks have a lot of Duplicate jobs running. So, I'm thinking about adding the following two directives, which may not provide all the functionality we will ever need, but would go a long way:
These apply only to backup jobs. 1. Allow Duplicate Jobs = Yes | No | Higher (Yes) 2. Duplicate Job Interval = <time-interval> (0) The defaults are in parenthesis and would produce the same behavior as today. If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to No, then any job starting while a job of the same name is running will be canceled. If Allow Duplicate Jobs is set to Higher, then any job starting with the same or lower level will be canceled, but any job with a Higher level will start. The Levels are from High to Low: Full, Differential, Incremental Finally, if you have Duplicate Job Interval set to a non-zero value, any job of the same name which starts <time-interval> after a previous job of the same name would run, any one that starts within <time-interval> would be subject to the above rules. Another way of looking at it is that the Allow Duplicate Jobs directive will only apply after <time-interval> of when the previous job finished (i.e. it is the minimum interval between jobs). Comments? Best regards, Kern PS: I think the default for Allow Duplicate Jobs should be Higher, but that would change current behavior ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
