On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:03:56PM +0200, Arno Lehmann wrote: > To avoid broblems with broken network hardware :-) the Heartbeat > Interval setting in the configuration is a good choice.
Right. I'm not too worried about it, I can make the firewall behave, and already have. The results are what interested me more. > The design of bacula does make it an error - the idea is that a job can > only be considererd good if all parties acknowledge the work was done > correctly. > > Although, in case of spooling, I think yuo've got a point, but if the FD > didn't wait for the SD to report "Everything done" how could it know > that the job really is written to tape completely? As bacula works > today, spooled data can not be despooled a second time, or even be used > as a bacula volume... Well, I'd think that as far as the FD is concerned, it's job was done when the spool-to-disk ended. (and for that matter, does the FD really contribute an 'opinion' about the state of a job anyway, other than to inform the SD/DIR it can't do something asked of it?) State really isn't kept on the FD, so it doesn't have to care if a job is done, once it's told to stop sending data. The SD knows it has the data, and that it's all correct - it is simply moving it from disk to tape at that point, and the FD's status shouldn't fail that portion of the backup. Unless the SD is able to take an error on the disk-to-tape portion, realize it, and request a second copy of things from the FD - that would necessitate a constant line of communication after the spool is done. I'm mainly thinking about laptops here, that might possibly move away once the user realizes that her disk isn't clicking away, and think the backup is done, while the spooling may still be occuring. Mark ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
