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