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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
