Re: [Bacula-users] job fails at the very end

On Thursday 17 March 2011 21:14:51 Marcin Wolcendorf wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:51:52PM +0200, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > On Thursday 17 March 2011 18:01:59 Marcin Wolcendorf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0200, Silver Salonen wrote:
> > > > Hello.
> > > > 
> > > > I have a very big job (50+ GB) running over WAN. I've tried to run the 
> > > > job twice now (it lasts for 6 days) and it errored out both times with 
> > > > errors:
> > > 
> > > And 6 days is a culprit here. According to statements I've found 
> > > somewhere on
> > > Bacula pages (do not remember where now, sorry), 6 days is a common sense 
> > > limit
> > > to the job execution time.
> > > I managed to split it to 2 separate jobs, but there is a config option to
> > > change MaxJobTime. Go to website, director configuration - it is not too
> > > complicated to find.
> > 
> > Hmm.. to me it's very difficult to find :)
> > 
> > Did you mean "Max Run Time"? 
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant. I set it to 2 weeks. 
> Nevertheless - it has no chance to hit me any more, as I split my jobs. 
> 
> > There's no default for that (according to the manual), so I don't think the 
> > problem is in there. And I don't think "common sense" cancels my job either 
> > ;)
> 
> No, common sense was a justification for - as described (see link below) -
> *hardcoded* 6 days timeout. Google is your friend here:
> http://www.backupcentral.com/phpBB2/two-way-mirrors-of-external-mailing-lists-3/bacula-25/watchdog-timer-killed-long-running-backup-77863/
> 
> From this I inderstand, that the 'feature' is still there, but now there is
> (might be) an override option called 'Max Run Time'.  OTOH - I have not 
> checked
> it, as my jobs are <6d now. 

OK, thanks. For the clarification, I took the change of running this very long 
job only once - afterwards I'll do differential, incremental and times-to-times 
manually virtual fulls.

-- 
Silver

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