Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Reschedule is confusing

2012-12-06 09:52:10
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Reschedule is confusing
From: Oliver Hoffmann <oh AT dom DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:49:19 +0100
> On Dec 5, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > Am Wed, 5 Dec 2012 17:37:57 +0100
> > schrieb Oliver Hoffmann <oh AT dom DOT de>:
> > 
> >>> 
> >>> Zitat von Oliver Hoffmann <oh AT dom DOT de>:
> >>> 
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>> 
> >>>> recently I had the following problem. After a reboot of the
> >>>> bacula server due to malfunction of the attached RAID all jobs
> >>>> very not running again. OK, that is what I expected but not what
> >>>> I wanted as starting 50 or more jobs by hand with bconsole is a
> >>>> bit tiresome. Thus I simply waited for the next backup run but
> >>>> that means no backups for that night.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Is there a way to accomplish a mass restart of
> >>>> jobs? My first thought was scripting the bconsole but maybe there
> >>>> is a build-in solution or something easier for that?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thx for ideas,
> >>>> 
> >>>> Oliver
> >>> 
> >>> You can alter the schedule time used and restart the director,
> >>> but most of the time starting backup jobs out of the backup
> >>> window is a bad idea anyway. If the jobs failed instead of get
> >>> skipped you can have a look at the "Reschedule On Error" jobs
> >>> setting.
> >>> 
> >>> Regards
> >>> 
> >>> Andreas
> >>> 
> >>> 
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> >> 
> >> I did some tests. First I stopped the bacula-fd on the client
> >> while a job was running. The settings on the client:
> >> 
> >> Reschedule On Error = yes
> >> Reschedule Interval = 10 minutes
> >> Reschedule Times = 5
> 
> I have similar;
> 
>   Max Start Delay = 2 minutes
>   Reschedule On Error = yes
>   Reschedule Interval = 20 minutes
> 
> see below…

I still do not understand the delay. Anyway, better having a
unexpected slow reschedule than nothing. 

> 
> 
> >> 
> >> The result was as expected:
> >> 
> >> Fatal error: Network error with FD during Backup: ERR=No data
> >> available JobId 51618: Fatal error: No Job status returned from FD.
> >> 
> >> That happened at 18:48. The reschedule of the job took place at
> >> 20:41. Why not at 18:58? There were no other jobs running and the
> >> server was up and idle. Same for the client. The fd was stopped
> >> for a minute or less.
> >> 
> >> Next I rebooted the server while a job was running. A status dir
> >> tells me "No Jobs running." Status of the client:
> >> 
> >> JobId 51718 Job client.2012-12-05_16.37.23_06 is running.
> >>    Incremental System or Console Job started: 05-Dez-12 16:37
> >>    Files=0 Bytes=0 Bytes/sec=0 Errors=0
> >>    Files Examined=0
> >>    SDReadSeqNo=3 fd=5
> >> Director connected at: 05-Dez-12 17:31
> >> 
> >> But nothing happens. Is it buggy or do I miss something here?
> >> 
> >> Version server: 5.2.5-0ubuntu6.2
> >> Version client: 5.2.5 (26 January 2012)  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ubuntu
> >> 12.04
> >> 
> >> Greetings,
> >> 
> >> Oliver
> >> 
> >> 
> > Ok, a command before job was blocking. But now it still does not
> > re-run. Does that mean, that once the server was rebooted all the
> > reschedules are not taken out?
> 
> 
> The Reschedule command will not help you if the Director is restarted.
> 

What a pity. Would be very useful though. All right, then I need a
script.

Cheers,

Oliver



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