On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 07:47:18 -0700, Kevin Keane wrote:

> I'm wondering if there is a way to resume (rather than restart from the
> beginning) a backup job that has aborted with an error?
> 
> My situation is that I am backing up one client over an unreliable
> connection (an SSH tunnel that goes through a cable modem). A full
> backup of this client would take about two hours or so, but after about
> an hour or so, the connection goes down on me. So the full backup never
> completes. Rather than starting over the next day, I would like to
> resume the backup job.

it's not possible to resume jobs. consider using the beta version or the 
new 3.0 (when  it's released). so you can do virtual full backups. No 
more full backups needed after the first one. 

another approach is to split the job into more jobs, so if one failes not 
all jobs have to be restarted.

> 
> Bonus feature: it would be ideal if I could restart the aborted backup
> immediately instead of waiting until the next scheduled time.

Look at:
Reschedule On Error
Reschedule Interval
Reschedule Times 

http://bacula.org/en/rel-manual/Configuring_Director.html

- Thomas


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