Re: [Bacula-users] Limit Bandwidth of Incremental backups only

[Bill A. <wa...@pr...>]

Oops!  My previous message was accidentally sent before I even typed a character. :)

Here's the real reply...


On 2/27/25 10:53 AM, sc...@ri... wrote:
 >
> Bill Arlofski via Bacula-users wrote on 2/13/25 3:22 PM:
>> Here's an idea. 💡
>> In your Job, configure two RunScripts sections. One before and one after.
>> Have a small script that takes the current jobid and the level.
>> If the level is "limit", set bandwidth to xxxx, if the level is
>> "unlimited", set the bandwidth on the jobid to 0.
> 
> Yee boy now you're thinking!  I had no idea we could run scripts and
> send console commands, this is great.  Sorry for the late reply, I've
> been busy.  My final results and observations:

:)

I see from your comments/logs that "I missed it by that 🤏 much"™

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw  🤣


Yeah, I guess with a `RunsWhen = before`, we might not have the jobid/ujobid yet, but I thought we would/should...


> I'm not sure what you had another RunScript for "after" for, so left
> that out for now since the bandwidth_control script will set the
> bandwidth to unlimited for all non-Incremental jobs, what were your
> thoughts for including it?

I guess I was just thinking to set the client back to unlimited at the end of the job. OCD... Making sure to clean up, put 
things back where I found them.

But, as I think about this now, what if you run a job that sets the client to limited, then later in the day (or whenever, 
but before the next backup job runs) you need to do a restore. If the bandwidth limit applies to restores too*, you will be 
stuck with a slow restore.

*Note: This is a good question that I don't immediately know the answer to, but my first guess would be yes, but I am not sure.


> So far so good, though!
 > Great!


Yeah, this is good news!  Glad it works for you now!


> I noticed, though, in the beginning when the Accurate info is exchanged,
> that isn't limited by this mechanism, since I was watching the net
> meters on the client.  That was incoming data from the director it
> appeared (or storage).  Can that traffic be limited at all?  Once that
> was done several mins later, though, the client started uploading to the
> director, or storage technically i guess, steady at 100 k/s.  Thanks!

Yeah, the bandwidth limit does not affect/throttle this accurate info data transfer from the Director to the client.

I can't imagine this would be a big deal, but if it is something that is really adversely affecting your environment, you can 
always open a feature request. :)


Best regards,
Bill

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Bill Arlofski
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