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Re: [Bacula-users] Strange behaviour with Mutliple Run statements in Job Resource

2009-03-26 06:14:26
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Strange behaviour with Mutliple Run statements in Job Resource
From: Andreas Bogacki <Andreas AT Bogacki DOT org>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:02:12 +0100
Andreas Bogacki schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to have found a problem with multiple Run statments in a Job
> resource.
> My setup is a bit strange due to too little storage in one place so I
> set up some migrate jobs.
>
> scheduled backup1 Job writes to filestorage1
> migrate1 Job moves from filestorage1 to filestorage2 based on volumetime
> migrate2 Job moves from filestorage2 to filestorage3 based on volumetime
> migrate3 Job moves from filestorage3 to filestorage4 based on volumetime
>
> The prefered execution order would be migrate3, migrate2, migrate1, backup1.
> Using priorities to get that order is not practical for there are lots
> of other backup jobs. (last time I tried I had a Weekend full of jobs
> waiting for one mount request)
>
> Run is not recursive so I tryed to use multiple run statements in the
> backup1 Job.
> This lead to the director spawning a massive amount of those migrate
> jobs (not 3 as expected but 100+). I suppose this behaviour is somewhat
> wrong.
>
> Is there any way to define dependecies between jobs that go deeper than
> just "start this single job befor this one is run" or will I have to
> create staggered schedules with all jobs having the same priority.
>
> thanks for your help
> Andreas Bogacki
>
>   
forgot to provide some details:
debian lenny
bacula 2.4.4 (28 December 2008) x86_64-pc-linux-gnu debian lenny/sid

the spawning of those jobs causes a Too many open files Error at some point:
message.c:589 fopen /var/log/bacula/log failed: ERR=Too many open files
and then the director segfaults.

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