Re: [Bacula-users] duplicate job control

On Friday 31 July 2009 11:41:29 Bram Vandoren wrote:
> Dear All,
> Bacula (3.0.2) is configured to make daily backups of some systems. Full
> backups unfortunately take more then one day to complete and I want to
> avoid that duplicate jobs start (or are queued) before the full backup
> is completed.
> 
> No duplicate job control directives are configured. If I understand the
> manual correctly (perhaps it's an interpretation error of me)
> http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html#SECTION00310000000000
> 0000000 this should not happen.
> 
> I had a quick look in the source code and found this code in
>  src/dird/job.c:
> 
> bool allow_duplicate_job(JCR *jcr)
> {
>    JOB *job = jcr->job;
>    JCR *djcr;                /* possible duplicate */
> 
>    if (job->AllowDuplicateJobs) {
>       return true;
>    }
>    if (!job->AllowHigherDuplicates) {
>       --> code related to "Cancel Queued Duplicates: and "Cancel Running
> Duplicates" here
>    }
>    return true;
> }
> 
> Apparently "Cancel Queued Duplicates" and "Cancel Running Duplicates"
> are only evaluated when "Allow Higher Duplicates" is set to "no" - not
> default. Is this an error in the documentation, code or me not correctly
> understanding the manual or code?
> 
> Kind regards,
> Bram Vandoren.

Well, yes, this is how Bacula handles duplicate jobs. To my experience. What's 
the error in documentation?

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