On Monday 07 April 2008 16:22, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> 07.04.2008 15:05, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > On Monday 07 April 2008 10:37, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> >> 07.04.2008 06:04, Seth Miller wrote:
> >>> How can I force Bacula to complete a job before it starts a new one
> >>> for the same client?
> >> You can't, now, I believe.
> > 
> > But you can automatically cancel the incremental job that would be 
upgraded to 
> > duplicate full. I'm doing it with:
> > 
> > JobDefs {
> >         ...
> >         Max Wait Time = 12h
> > }
> > 
> 
> Well, if you're using that approach, and usually have jobs run 
> concurrently (so normally the jobs don't have to wait at all) I'd set 
> the wait time rather low, like 5 minutes. Otherwise, if a job takes 35 
> hours, you'll end up with another full backup...
> 
> Also, the "Incremental Max Wait Time" seems to be broken... at least 
> that's what I read on -devel by Eric Bollengier.

Actually yes, right you are, that's not a solution. Especially as the "Max 
Wait Time" causes the running backups to be cancelled after the specified 
time (I complained about this in a separate thread).

Right now it came to me that the same check could be done with "run before 
job" script. A quick example (check-job.sh):
=====
jobName="$1"
jobId="$2"
if ( echo "status dir" | bconsole | grep -v "${jobId}" | grep "Job 
${jobName}.* is running" ); then
        exit 1
else
        exit 0
fi
=====
The script should be ran with "Run Before Job = check-job.sh '%n' '%i'".

Some notes after testing that solution:
* the same job must be able to run concurrently, because "run before job" is 
executed before starting backup, not when the job is scheduled
* user of bacula-dir (running process) must be able to access bconsole.conf
* the "Run Before Job" may be used next to other "run script" directives

Any thoughts on that approach?

--
Silver

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