On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Hemant Shah might have said:

> Anyone have a clue on how to solve this problem?
> 
> Hemant Shah
> E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 9/8/08, Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Hemant Shah <hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com>
> > Subject: [Bacula-users] Problem cancelling a job
> > To: "baculausers" <bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
> > Date: Monday, September 8, 2008, 11:31 AM
> > Folks,
> > 
> >   Over the weekend, one of my systems crashed while it was
> > being backed up. I did not notice it until after 12 hours.
> > "stat dir" command showed that the job was still
> > running and other jobs with lower priority were waiting for
> > this job to complete.
> > 
> >   I re-booted the client, but bconsole still showed that
> > the job was running. I cancelled the job and I got back
> > message that the job was cancelled, but "stat dir"
> > still showed that job was running fifteen minutes after I
> > cancelled the job. I had to shutdown bacula change my config
> > file (change schedule) and restart bacula.
> > 
> > How do I cancel a job if the client has crashed or lost
> > network connection while it was being backed up?
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Hemant Shah
> > E-mail: hjrrs AT yahoo DOT com

The only way I've cancelled jobs is 'cancel jobid=$id'. This command
has worked for me every time. I've not had a client connection lost
during backup.

I can see restarting the bacula server, but not changing the
bacula-dir.conf file and schedule.

Mike

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