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