Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Full-Job gets killed by time limit

2011-08-31 10:06:12
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Full-Job gets killed by time limit
From: Marcello Romani <mromani AT ottotecnica DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:40:58 +0200
Il 31/08/2011 15:33, Jeremy Maes ha scritto:
> Op 31/08/2011 14:53, Uwe Bolick schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have to backup a remote site with several TB of data over a "slow"
>> connection (varying between 10-15 GB per hour). Under these
>> circumstances, one of my initial "Full" jobs gets killed after 6 days:
> Bacula has a hardcoded time limit on jobs of 6 days. Kern called it an
> "insanity check" as any job that runs that long isn't all that useful...
>
> See
> http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
> net/msg20159.html
> for a discussion on the mailing list from the past, and a pointer on
> where to change the time limit in the code if you wish.
>
> Regards,
> Jeremy
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I suggest emitting a warning on service startup if the user sets a max 
run time greater than this hardcoded limit.

-- 
Marcello Romani

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