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[Bacula-users] Restarting bacula-dir while a job is in progress?

[Mike H. <fl...@ya...>]

Howdy,

 

I'm testing out bacula (a newbie) in an environment with Linux and Windows
XP 64bit systems.

 

I'm running bacula 2.0.2 with -dir, -fd and -sd on a Linux server, and -fd
on each of the Windows and other Linux systems. The backups are being stored
onto a 500 GB hard drive.

 

I have a full backup running from one of the Windows machines, it's about 15
GB's into the backup. I noticed that there are several other jobs in the
queue "waiting execution".

 

I changed Maximum Current Jobs from 1 to 2 in bacula-dir.conf.

 

In order for this change to take affect, I need to restart bacula-dir.

 

Do I need to pause the existing job before I restart bacula-dir, I don't see
a command that will do this.

 

If I just restart bacula-dir, will the job resume normal operation once it
restarts?

 

Thanks, Mike

Re: [Bacula-users] Restarting bacula-dir while a job is in progress?

[Ralf G. <Ral...@ra...>]

Mike Hanby schrieb:
> I'm testing out bacula (a newbie) in an environment with Linux and Windows
> XP 64bit systems.
> 
> I'm running bacula 2.0.2 with -dir, -fd and -sd on a Linux server, and -fd
> on each of the Windows and other Linux systems. The backups are being stored
> onto a 500 GB hard drive.
> 
> I have a full backup running from one of the Windows machines, it's about 15
> GB's into the backup. I noticed that there are several other jobs in the
> queue "waiting execution".
> 
> I changed Maximum Current Jobs from 1 to 2 in bacula-dir.conf.
> 
> In order for this change to take affect, I need to restart bacula-dir.

Try issuing the reload command in bconsole. This way you don't have to
restart the dir.
 
> Do I need to pause the existing job before I restart bacula-dir, I don't see
> a command that will do this.
> 
> If I just restart bacula-dir, will the job resume normal operation once it
> restarts?

No, I'm pretty sure the job will end with an error message.

Ralf

Re: [Bacula-users] Restarting bacula-dir while a job is in progress?

[Ryan N. <nov...@um...>]

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Ralf Gross wrote:
> Mike Hanby schrieb:
>> I'm testing out bacula (a newbie) in an environment with Linux and Windows
>> XP 64bit systems.
>>
>> I'm running bacula 2.0.2 with -dir, -fd and -sd on a Linux server, and -fd
>> on each of the Windows and other Linux systems. The backups are being stored
>> onto a 500 GB hard drive.
>>
>> I have a full backup running from one of the Windows machines, it's about 15
>> GB's into the backup. I noticed that there are several other jobs in the
>> queue "waiting execution".
>>
>> I changed Maximum Current Jobs from 1 to 2 in bacula-dir.conf.
>>
>> In order for this change to take affect, I need to restart bacula-dir.
> 
> Try issuing the reload command in bconsole. This way you don't have to
> restart the dir.

BE CAREFUL with this. If you make a mistake, the director will bomb out
(the same way it would if you attempted to start it with a bad
directive). I believe there was some discussion about fixing this (and
in fact, my current director 2.0.2 says something about bad directives
and reusing the old ones, but IIRC it segfaults after that -- guess I
should have reported that but never thought about it).

>> Do I need to pause the existing job before I restart bacula-dir, I don't see
>> a command that will do this.
>>
>> If I just restart bacula-dir, will the job resume normal operation once it
>> restarts?
> 
> No, I'm pretty sure the job will end with an error message.

Indeed -- the jobs will error and die on restart.
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Re: [Bacula-users] Restarting bacula-dir while a job is in progress?

[John D. <dre...@gm...>]

> BE CAREFUL with this. If you make a mistake, the director will bomb out
> (the same way it would if you attempted to start it with a bad
> directive). I believe there was some discussion about fixing this (and
> in fact, my current director 2.0.2 says something about bad directives
> and reusing the old ones, but IIRC it segfaults after that -- guess I
> should have reported that but never thought about it).
>
Agreed. I am pretty sure you can run a second instance of bacula-dir
and use the test command to verify the config file. Something like
this should work:

 bacula-dir -t -v -c /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf

John

Re: [Bacula-users] Restarting bacula-dir while a job is in progress?

[Kern S. <ke...@si...>]

On Friday 23 February 2007 19:58, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> Ralf Gross wrote:
> > Mike Hanby schrieb:
> >> I'm testing out bacula (a newbie) in an environment with Linux and
> >> Windows XP 64bit systems.
> >>
> >> I'm running bacula 2.0.2 with -dir, -fd and -sd on a Linux server, and
> >> -fd on each of the Windows and other Linux systems. The backups are
> >> being stored onto a 500 GB hard drive.
> >>
> >> I have a full backup running from one of the Windows machines, it's
> >> about 15 GB's into the backup. I noticed that there are several other
> >> jobs in the queue "waiting execution".
> >>
> >> I changed Maximum Current Jobs from 1 to 2 in bacula-dir.conf.
> >>
> >> In order for this change to take affect, I need to restart bacula-dir.
> >
> > Try issuing the reload command in bconsole. This way you don't have to
> > restart the dir.
>
> BE CAREFUL with this. If you make a mistake, the director will bomb out
> (the same way it would if you attempted to start it with a bad
> directive). I believe there was some discussion about fixing this (and
> in fact, my current director 2.0.2 says something about bad directives
> and reusing the old ones, but IIRC it segfaults after that -- guess I
> should have reported that but never thought about it).

Yes, it is never too late to do so.

>
> >> Do I need to pause the existing job before I restart bacula-dir, I don't
> >> see a command that will do this.
> >>
> >> If I just restart bacula-dir, will the job resume normal operation once
> >> it restarts?
> >
> > No, I'm pretty sure the job will end with an error message.
>
> Indeed -- the jobs will error and die on restart.
>
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