On 09/23/10 14:00, Sean Clark wrote:
>   I've been setting maximum jobs to 2 for most file daemons around here, 
> since we should never actually be running more than 1 job (but we have 
> room to run a second simultaneous job in case I ever think of a reason 
> that we need to).
> 
> Having mistakenly forgotten to set "Allow Duplicate Jobs=no", I now have 
> a user whose laptop is running two simultaneous "Full" 100GB+ backups.  
> I went to cancel the later-starting of the two and...I'm denied.  The 
> director appears to hang for several minutes before finally giving me a 
> "Like, Dude, Something Went Wrong!" message.  The error message suggests 
> the problem is that I've hit the "maximum concurrent jobs" limit on the 
> FD  (as I'm pretty confident that of the other two options, the 
> passwords match and the two simultaneously-running jobs suggest there's 
> nothing currently wrong with the networking...).
> 
> I find I can't even get client status.  "status client=(hostname)" for 
> that system gives me:
> 
> 23-Sep 12:46 bacula-dir JobId 0: Fatal error: Error sending Hello to 
> File daemon at "(hostname):9102". ERR=Interrupted system call
> 
> Does every connection count as a "job"? 

No, but it does count as a *connection*, so if you have concurrency on
the client set to 1, then any other access while a job is running will
be denied or time out.  By the sound of it, you need to increase the
concurrency on the client.

> And do I have any recourse 
> other than either wondering if one of the jobs will actually finish 
> getting through the remaining 70+GB before the end of the day when the 
> user will no doubt unplug his laptop and go home with it (leaving us 
> still needing to get a full backup to run again most of the day 
> tomorrow), or halting the bacula director entirely to "crash" the job, 
> also probably leaving us unable to finish the full backup before 
> quittin' time today and therefore still needing to do a full backup 
> tomorrow again?

By the sound of it, you're pretty much between a rock and a hard place
there.  If the Director can't connect to send a cancel, then you really
have no mechanism for killing just one of the running jobs.


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