Re: Timeout setting for ClientRunBeforeJob

Hi Rob,  Martin,

Well  I too thought of this solution, namely, loosely synchronizing the job schedule time and a cron job on the client; as a workaround.

Thanks anyways,

Regards,
Yateen

From: Rob Gerber <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2025 11:36 PM
To: Martin Simmons <[email protected]>
Cc: Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) <[email protected]>; bacula-users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Timeout setting for ClientRunBeforeJob


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You might also want to have the job delete the results file in a "ClientRunAfterJob" script, to prevent any case where the cron job breaks and the Bacula job just backs up the old list over and over again.

Robert Gerber
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2025, 11:15 AM Martin Simmons <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
If you know what time the backup will run, you could try running the script
some hours earlier using a cron job and then back up the results.

__Martin


>>>>> On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:07:30 +0000, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat \(Nokia\) via Bacula-users said:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> The script takes a "smart" backup of git repos of many users, by creating git diffs for them.
> Some of them may have huge non git local data in their work env.
>
> Anyway, your suggestion for a split backup is a good one.
>
> -Yateen
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> On 6/18/25 9:06 AM, Yateen Shaligram Bhagat (Nokia) wrote:
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> > Thank you Bill for the quick reply....
> > Much appreciated !
>
> You are welcome...
>
>
> You didn't mention what your script is doing, but if it is doing something like I said and taking too long on a large directory tree, the best fix is to split this directory tree up into multiple Fileset/Jobs which backup different parts of the directory tree and run them concurrently.
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> Best regards,
> Bill
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