Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job

2010-01-07 02:20:27
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] continuing a failed job
From: Silver Salonen <silver AT ultrasoft DOT ee>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 09:17:49 +0200
On Wednesday 06 January 2010 19:30:42 Timo Neuvonen wrote:
> "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.

Well, yes.. I know the job itself cannot be continued. But could it be somehow 
marked as OK, so it could be used as a basis for another non-full backup?

-- 
Silver

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