Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job

2010-01-06 12:35:06
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
From: "Timo Neuvonen" <timo-news AT tee-en DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 19:30:42 +0200
"Thomas Mueller" <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> kirjoitti viestissä 
news:hi2ffj$gal$2 AT ger.gmane DOT org...
> Am Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:08:17 +0200 schrieb Silver Salonen:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Has anyone figured out how to continue a failed job? I have a client
>> that has gigabytes of data, but very fragile internet connection, so
>> it's almost impossible to get a normal full backup job.
>>
>> I thought I'd do it with VirtualFull job to create a successful job out
>> of failed one and then use it as basis for incremental, but
>> unfortunately VirtualFull requires a previous successful job as well
>> (duh). Is there a way to mark a job successful?
>
> you can't continue a failed job.
>
> this is a "known problem" with unstable internet connections. maybe you
> can work around with openvpn (or something like that) to simply hide
> short outages to bacula.
>

Another workaround could be splitting the fileset to several smaller ones. 
This way one job takes less time and it's more propable it will finish 
successfully. And if it won't, it takes less time to re-run it.

--
TiN 



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