Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] disabled job still ran

2009-02-03 13:49:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] disabled job still ran
From: John Drescher <drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>
To: rbuder AT proficom-ag DOT de, bacula-users <Bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:46:03 -0500
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Ronald Buder <rbuder AT proficom-ag DOT de> 
wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I don't know how or why, but for some reason two disabled jobs ran, twice even
> after disabling them. The reason they were disabled was that the run after
> script had a major bug that would sooner or later screw up the client. Well,
> unfortunately that's exactly what happened.
>
> I'm kind of out of ideas about how or why that happened. I'm absolutely
> positive that I disabled the jobs last week on Wednesday. Luckily did I define
> system jobs that backed up the operating system so that I can restore the box
> and have it back up and running in no time. But I'm still absolutely clueless
> as how or why bacula would even trigger a job that's been disabled.
>
> We performed an upgrade to 2.4.4 today which went smoothly and everything is
> up and running. Until yesterday we had 2.4.3 up which seemed to be working
> good too. However skimming through the logs and double checking with the
> currently enabled and disabled jobs I have just noticed other candidates which
> exposed the same behaviour.
>
> Any clues as if to what might be happening are greatly appreciated. This will
> give me a bad nights sleep. I stop the client daemons on the clients now, just
> to be sure.
>

I believe disabled jobs are only disabled until the config file is
reloaded or bacula-dir is restarted.

John

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