Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2010-03-26 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Thursday 25 March 2010 04:39:34 Morty Abzug wrote: > I'm resurrecting an old thread about a patch I submitted some time > ago. The idea was to implement "poll" (or "empty") jobs that do > nothing but check backup intervals, and then implement a > "MaxIncrInterval" analagous to "MaxDiffInterval"

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2010-03-24 Thread Morty Abzug
I'm resurrecting an old thread about a patch I submitted some time ago. The idea was to implement "poll" (or "empty") jobs that do nothing but check backup intervals, and then implement a "MaxIncrInterval" analagous to "MaxDiffInterval" and "MaxFullInterval". Reasons to use this: * Better behavi

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-07-05 Thread Kern Sibbald
On Sunday 05 July 2009 08:46:11 Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > [top posting since that seems to be the preference.] The posting method is what makes sense to you. I don't have any religion on that subject -- except that after about 4 or 5 posts with responses mixed in, it can get a bit complicated

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-07-04 Thread Mordechai T. Abzug
[top posting since that seems to be the preference.] There might well be some cases where it would be useful to have "poll" jobs to kick off what are currently "admin" jovs. However, I'm not sure that would work well given the current split between different job types -- if it starts off as an a

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-07-02 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Morty, This is just to let you know that I have received these patches. The MaxDiff problem *should* now be fixed in the SVN. It took me several tries :-(. Concerning the Poll, I like the concept, but I would like to think about this some more. What bothers me is that this is a very sp

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello Morty, I would like to respond to your questions in a bit of detail, but I am travelling today and tomorrow, and Saturday I am in a meeting all day, so I will answer Sunday. Please have patience, but if you do not hear from me by Monday, please ping me ... See one quick answer below. B

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-22 Thread Mordechai T. Abzug
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 12:06:13PM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > Since this is a design issue, it is always better to discuss it a > bit on the list before starting the implementation. I sent a feature request to bacula-users a week ago, but saw no comments. Got impatient and coded it. Probably

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-22 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, On Wednesday 22 April 2009 10:12:30 Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:33:51AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > > I am sorry, but it is not clear what you are doing here, in > > particular why you are adding a maxincinterval and what a "POLL" job > > is. > > I was trying to

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-22 Thread Mordechai T. Abzug
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 08:33:51AM +0200, Kern Sibbald wrote: > I am sorry, but it is not clear what you are doing here, in > particular why you are adding a maxincinterval and what a "POLL" job > is. I was trying to improve handling for laptops and other devices that go away for the night. Ma

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-21 Thread Kern Sibbald
Hello, I am sorry, but it is not clear what you are doing here, in particular why you are adding a maxincinterval and what a "POLL" job is. Best regards, Kern PS: All patches need to be submitted as attachments to avoid email wrapping. On Wednesday 22 April 2009 02:58:17 Mordechai T. Abzug wr

Re: [Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-21 Thread Mordechai T. Abzug
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 06:38:14PM -0400, Mordechai T. Abzug wrote: > Looks like MaxFullInterval is working correctly, but MaxDiffInterval > isn't. > > Is this a bug, or am I missing something? Oh, I think I see the problem. I've *never* run a differential on this client. That's a problem here

[Bacula-devel] Max Diff Interval problem

2009-04-21 Thread Mordechai T. Abzug
[originally posted to -users] I'm testing bacula 3.0.0, built from source with sqlite3, on a Debian 5.0 box. It's configured to run incrementals every minute on a small dir, with: MaxFullInterval=4 minutes MaxDiffInterval=2 minutes But stat dir shows: Terminated Jobs: JobId LevelFile