Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Martin Simmons
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:18:01 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:10 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: =20 In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the= =20 testfile inode was

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Russell Howe
Martin Simmons wrote: On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:18:01 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: How often does the Director poll the system date time? How often does the Storage director? I don't see any options in the config to control this. Specifically, for periodic maintenance like

Re: Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
{Increm/Diferer}ential to Full... How often does the Director poll the system date time? How often does the Storage director? I don't see any options in the config to control this. Specifically, for periodic maintenance like recycling/pruning/volume status flagging. AFAIK, these

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-13 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 09:02 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hello, On 2/8/2006 6:54 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Is there any built-in mechanism to test Schedule {} planning? I need to verify the behavior will work as expected. If you trust Bacula itself, use the show job=xxx command. Part

Date/Time poll'ing ? (WAS: Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?)

2006-02-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:10 +0100, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the testfile inode was modified) /dir1/testfile will not be stored because it's not recognized as new - it's time stamps

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-12 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 20:30 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: Hi, On a related note, if you're consistently bumping the clock around on your test platform (where DIR and SD are) using date(8) to simulate catching scheduled jobs, and your FD is not localhost but somewhere else where the clock is

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 2/9/2006 10:10 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: uses the unix time stamps to determine which files to store - together with mv'in files to different directories this can become a problem! You scare me. What sort of problem? Moving or renaming

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Denk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the testfile inode was modified) /dir1/testfile will not be stored because it's not recognized as new - it's time stamps are older than the last full backup. RGHHH It was

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-09 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, On 2/9/2006 10:10 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the testfile inode was modified) /dir1/testfile will not be stored because it's not recognized as new - it's time stamps are older than

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-09 Thread Corey Jewett
On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: In many cases (i.e. when, during the mv operation, to time stamp of the testfile inode was modified) /dir1/testfile will not be stored because it's not recognized as new - it's time stamps are older

Re: [Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-08 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Bumping the clock around on the machine seems reasonable, but ugly. File system activity can also be scripted outside of the system. Somehow I don't understand what file system activity has to do with the schedules... I guess I need to test more than just the schedule. I need to

[Bacula-users] Simulate/Test Scheduler?

2006-02-07 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Is there any built-in mechanism to test Schedule {} planning? I need to verify the behavior will work as expected. Bumping the clock around on the machine seems reasonable, but ugly. File system activity can also be scripted outside of the system. TIA, ~lava