On 01/26/2010 22:34, Dan Langille wrote:
> Steve Costaras wrote:
>>
>> On 01/26/2010 14:50, Arno Lehmann wrote:
>>
>> The different jobs were to make running ad-hoc backups of a client 
>> outside of the schedule.    All the backup jobs have the same client 
>> and fileset.  So are you suggesting that the job name is an index to 
>> the catalogue?
>
> Well, sort of, yes.  It doesn't matter that the two jobs have the same 
> Client and FileSet.  They are two different jobs.
>
> > If so then how would you be able to configure bacula to
>> run ad-hoc jobs against a client?   They would never match the 
>> catalogue?
>
> Issue the run command.  Use the mod option, then alter the job 
> parameters to suit.
>
> What do you mean by NEVER match?  You're running the Job, and altering 
> the items on the fly.  It's still the same job.  It is the Job Name 
> that counts here.

So then I am a bit confused as to why bacula hints at having a Client 
field and a Name field in the Job resource.  I'll give this a try as 
from what you're saying that's how it's coded.   However to me this 
looks like just wasteful duplication.   If the job name is an index and 
the client name is an index to the same data (won't even go into the 
file set being an index that I found out before) then why have both (job 
name & client)?

I would have thought that by having them separate that would allow 
someone to customize settings and have them ready-made to run 
interactively and using the client name as the catalogue index.   (so a 
user doesn't need to manually modify runs, just select the job (which 
would have all the settings pre-set for them) and would link to the same 
client in the database.



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