Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 16.10.2008 15:53, John Drescher wrote:
> 
>>>>Does the first job take more than 1 day?
>>>
>>>Yes, that is true in this case. But is this making any difference ?? With
>>>running full backup there shouldn't be any next job upgraded to full prior to
>>>finish of first one.
>>>
>>
>>The reason I ask is when the next backup is scheduled to begin if the
>>previous full is not completed the next backup will be upgraded to a
>>full. There has been some discussion of this problem on the list. I am
>>not sure of the solution to this but I will try to check the archives.
> 
> 
>  From my memory: One user implemented a small run before job script 
> that checks if a corresponding full for the current job is running and 
> returns 1 if that's the case, thus effectively canceling the newly 
> scheduled job.
> 
> In some future version, some directives will be available to prevent 
> the outlined scenario. I forgot which directive names were discussed, 
> though... and I don't think this is in the devel manual.
> 
> Arno

I had this problem from the start. I ended up with a line in my 
RunBefore script which disabled the backup job:

   echo "disable job=Job1" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole

This disables any further scheduling of Job1 but leaves the current one 
running.

And in the RunAfter script I have
   echo "run job=BackupCatalog yes" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole
   echo "enable job=Job1" | /usr/local/bacula/bin/bconsole


The BackupCatalog job is set 'enabled=no' in bacula-dir.conf

I'm sure I saw some discussion on the devel list of upcoming facilities 
which would disable a scheduled job if some other job was still running, 
but I'm damned if I can find the relevant emails

Cheers,
Terry

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