On 02/09/11 12:27, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote:
> Is it possible to 'pause' a job and then resume at a later time?

Well  ......    *sort of*.

If the job is waiting on a media request, you can hold off on changing
the media more or less as long as you want, within reason.  (Though if
you have your job "on hold" for a long time, it may cause other later
jobs to fail - if you nave duplicate jobs disallowed, for example.)  And
as long as the same Director session is running and the client hasn't
disconnected, you could swap the media later and let the job resume
execution.

But "snapshot" the job, suspend it, go away and do other stuff, restart
any of the Bacula daemons involved, and come back at another time and
pick up where you left off?  No.  Once a given instance of a job has
*stopped* and its buffers are no longer in memory, it's either complete
or it's failed, kaput, gone, adios, finito Benito.  "It is no more.  It
has ceased to be!  It's expired and gone to meet its maker!  It's a
stiff!  Bereft of life, it rests in peace! ..."


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