Hi, Just comment out the jobs in jobs.conf and it will not do those backups. Make sure to either reload bacula or stop/restart bacula to make the configuration changes stick. Then just uncomment the jobs when yo are done with what you need to do and restart bacula again.
iana wrote: > > Hi, > I'm looking for a way to tell bacula to stop doing backups while I do some > administative things like labeling tapes (or restoring). This problem has > just bitten me but I don't know bacula well enough yet to work around it. > > I have one tape which is in VolStatus=Append and I wanted to add another > tape to the pool. I unmounted and ejected the tape then wrote an EOF > marker > on the new tape, started up bconsole and labeled it. As soon as I had > finished this, a bacula job which had been scheduled started writing to > the > new tape. I wanted this backup on the first tape, what should I have done? > Is there a way of holding backups in queue until tasks like labeling or > restoring are finished? > > I'm new to bacula so I might be thinking about this the wrong way, but I > would appreceate any guidance. > > -- > > Ian > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are > powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and > easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development > software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. > Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Pausing-the-backup-schedule-tp22689613p22700773.html Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
