Thank you all for your insight and responses. Virtual Full sounds very
interesting. I have some reading to do!
Barak
On 2013-08-16 09:13, Josh Fisher wrote:
> On 8/16/2013 9:07 AM, Kern Sibbald wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I see you have received a number of suggestions, but another one
>> that might improve things if the hangups are due to Windows machines
>> or switches is to use the Bacula heartbeat feature. This will not
>> prevent
>> a hang up due to a real comm line failure, but it will prevent most
>> causes of hang ups, which are switch/Windows timeouts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kern
>
> Also, while Bacula properly handles Windows power management, the PM
> state Bacula, or any daemon, can set using the Windows API
> (SetThreadExecutionState()), is overridden by the user manually
> entering sleep mode. And from what I've seen, the user closing the lid
> of a laptop constitutes manually entering sleep mode. Then there are
> users who physically remove their laptop from the building. And of
> course there is the very rare real comm link failure.
>
> Bottom line is that as the World moves to more portable workstations
> there just isn't much of a way to guarantee a successful full backup
> at every attempt. So I have learned to live with daily failed jobs,
> even failed incremental jobs. ( Some way to get a warning notification
> after N failures would be welcome.) The best method for handling these
> clients, IMHO, is Bacula's virtual full backups. I have a user with a
> nearly year old Macbook that has never had a successful full backup,
> other than the initial one I made before I let him get his hands on
> it. But it has had incrementals most days and many virtual fulls. I
> feel confident that I could restore every valuable file from that
> laptop, though it regularly has failed jobs.
>
>>
>> On 08/14/2013 03:37 PM, Barak Griffis wrote:
>>> Feel free to direct me to a URL, since this seems like an obvious
>>> newb
>>> question, but I don't see an obvious search result on the webs.
>>>
>>> If a job gets interrupted (say network drops out midway through a
>>> full). What happens the next time? does it pick up where it left
>>> off
>>> or does it start over?
>>>
>>> Barak
>>>
>>>
>>
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