Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Disturbing backups

2008-09-24 19:41:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Disturbing backups
From: Chris Howells <chris AT transitive DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:13:31 +0100
James Cort wrote:

> You can type "reload" from the console to reload config files without
> disturbing running backups but IME (certainly for versions 2.0 and
> earlier, not sure about more recent) that can be dangerous because
> syntax errors in the config file can cause the director to die.

Yes, although if you do this before you 'reload':

bacula-dir -t -c /etc/path/to/config

it will test the config for syntax errors and exit.

-- 
Chris Howells <chris AT transitive DOT com>
Senior SysAdmin - Transitive Ltd.
http://www.transitive.com




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