Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs running are lost after restart bacula-director

2010-09-07 11:47:20
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Jobs running are lost after restart bacula-director
From: Steve Polyack <korvus AT comcast DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:45:14 -0400
  On 09/07/10 11:09, Eduardo Júnior wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> 2010/9/6 John Drescher<drescherjm AT gmail DOT com>:
>> 2010/9/6 Eduardo Júnior<ihtraum18 AT gmail DOT com>:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>> I use bacula-director 2.4.4 on Debian Lenny Box.
>>>
>>> Why after a restart or reload of the daemon director
>>> (/etc/init.d/bacula-director)
>>> all jobs running are lost?
>>>
>>> Is it possible avoid this?
>> Why are you restarting the director when jobs are running. Do not do
>> that. If you changed the configuation and want to apply that use the
>> reload command in bacula. Make sure you test your config file first
>> with
>>
>> bacula-dir -t /etc/bacula/bacula-dir.conf
> This isn' usually, restart the director when jobs are running.
> Sometimes in the evening I need do changes and I have an
> interval time do re-running jobs that were lost.
>
> So, reload command is sufficient and the jobs in execution will
> no be lost?
>
> Thanks,
>
Correct, running jobs will not be lost and their execution will not be 
stopped when you use the reload command.  However, keep in mind John's 
comment about testing the config with 'bacula-dir -t' first - a config 
error will result in the director crashing when you issue the reload 
command.


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