On 2011-03-11, at 9:20 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote:
> On 02/28/2011 11:10 AM, Mike Hobbs wrote:
>> I'm testing Bacula, so this is not a production setup and I ran into
>> an issue, problem, bug, I'm not sure. During my testing, I'm backing up
>> a file system of about 700gb to a disk. A FULL backup took around 21
>> hours with compression turned on. While this was happening the
>> remaining backup jobs were queued waiting for the big job to finish.
>> Once the big 700gb job was done the remaining jobs ran and all was well.
>>
>> The problem came when it was time to do the big job again, I thought it
>> would have ran an incremental as all the other backup jobs have done,
>> but bacula decided to re-run a FULL job again. I'm not sure why or
>> where to look to try and figure out why. Anyone have any thoughts?
>>
>> Some other minor questions..
>>
>> Does bacula use the /etc/dumpdates file? (I don't think so)
>>
>> Are there any limitations to file, folder or file system sizes that
>> bacula can't do?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>
> ok, at first I thought it was a changed fileset that was causing the
> FULL backup to run again, but it seems that is not it. This is what
> I've noticed.
>
> When backing up a huge file system for the first time, if the backup is
> still running when the other jobs are scheduled to start, bacula with
> queue up the machine again thinking it needs another full backup,
> probably because the first full backup as not finished. If I'm not
> explaining this very well I'm sorry, but here is the director status and
> you should see what I mean.
>
> 18 Full mtlcad2.2011-03-10_13.39.51_04 is running
> 19 Increme mtl-backup2.2011-03-10_23.05.00_06 is waiting execution
> 20 Increme lod.2011-03-10_23.05.00_07 is waiting execution
> 21 Full mtlcad2.2011-03-10_23.05.00_08 is waiting execution
>
> Is there a bacula option I can set that says do not run any jobs for a
> client that has a job currently running?
>
> I hope this makes sense.
>
> mike
>
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Hello Mike,
I do this by setting this in my jobdef.
Allow Duplicate Jobs = No
Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = Yes
James
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