Thank you all for your insight and responses. Virtual Full sounds very interesting. I have some reading to do!
Barak On 2013-08-16 09:13, Josh Fisher wrote: > On 8/16/2013 9:07 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I see you have received a number of suggestions, but another one >> that might improve things if the hangups are due to Windows machines >> or switches is to use the Bacula heartbeat feature. This will not >> prevent >> a hang up due to a real comm line failure, but it will prevent most >> causes of hang ups, which are switch/Windows timeouts. >> >> Regards, >> Kern > > Also, while Bacula properly handles Windows power management, the PM > state Bacula, or any daemon, can set using the Windows API > (SetThreadExecutionState()), is overridden by the user manually > entering sleep mode. And from what I've seen, the user closing the lid > of a laptop constitutes manually entering sleep mode. Then there are > users who physically remove their laptop from the building. And of > course there is the very rare real comm link failure. > > Bottom line is that as the World moves to more portable workstations > there just isn't much of a way to guarantee a successful full backup > at every attempt. So I have learned to live with daily failed jobs, > even failed incremental jobs. ( Some way to get a warning notification > after N failures would be welcome.) The best method for handling these > clients, IMHO, is Bacula's virtual full backups. I have a user with a > nearly year old Macbook that has never had a successful full backup, > other than the initial one I made before I let him get his hands on > it. But it has had incrementals most days and many virtual fulls. I > feel confident that I could restore every valuable file from that > laptop, though it regularly has failed jobs. > >> >> On 08/14/2013 03:37 PM, Barak Griffis wrote: >>> Feel free to direct me to a URL, since this seems like an obvious >>> newb >>> question, but I don't see an obvious search result on the webs. >>> >>> If a job gets interrupted (say network drops out midway through a >>> full). What happens the next time? does it pick up where it left >>> off >>> or does it start over? >>> >>> Barak >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! >> It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. >> Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. >> Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Bacula-users mailing list >> Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
