Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/15/11 14:18, Mike Ruskai wrote: > File = " > Then generate the file "current_file" with your script, which would > contain, for the above example, this: > > /mnt/data/usb_disk_1/dir3/sub1/sub2/006/056 > > You can also do this: > > File = "|print_current_file" > > Where "print_current_fi

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Mike Ruskai
On 1/14/2011 2:18 PM, Stan M. Hammond wrote: > I am looking to see if anyone has any ideas or even if it can be done. > We have a number of data files (3TB - over 12K files) that we want to > requests. Request ignored" and then in our case crash bacula-dir. I am > wondering if there is a way to

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/15/11 13:09, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote: > 2011/1/15 Phil Stracchino > > > No. I don't know enough about the internals of the Director to know why > it is unsafe, but experience has shown that it is. Sooner or later, a > reload ... perhaps overwri

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Radosław Korzeniewski
2011/1/15 Phil Stracchino > No. I don't know enough about the internals of the Director to know why > it is unsafe, but experience has shown that it is. Sooner or later, a > reload ... perhaps overwrites a buffer or pointer that's in use, perhaps > tries to replace a structure that is locked be

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-15 Thread Phil Stracchino
On 01/15/11 01:43, Silver Salonen wrote: > On Friday 14 January 2011 23:30:15 Phil Stracchino wrote: >> Stan: >> >> Without commenting further on the reasonableness of your data owner's >> ideas about how to do this, the real-world chances of the Bacula >> director encountering an error increase wi

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Silver Salonen
On Friday 14 January 2011 23:30:15 Phil Stracchino wrote: > Stan: > > Without commenting further on the reasonableness of your data owner's > ideas about how to do this, the real-world chances of the Bacula > director encountering an error increase with every successive reload > without a restart.

Re: [Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Phil Stracchino
Stan: Without commenting further on the reasonableness of your data owner's ideas about how to do this, the real-world chances of the Bacula director encountering an error increase with every successive reload without a restart. The chance of a single Director instance surviving even a hundred su

[Bacula-users] Using one job config for multiple individual file backups?

2011-01-14 Thread Stan M. Hammond
I am looking to see if anyone has any ideas or even if it can be done. We have a number of data files (3TB - over 12K files) that we want to backup to tape. We are already performing tape backups using Bacula without any problems. The 3TB backup is different because it will be a one shot bac