RunScript not working if within multipe JobDefs

Martin Krämer

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Apr 4, 2020, 9:15:00 AM4/4/20

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Hi All,

I just experienced that if I use multiple (>1) jobdefs in a "subtree" like style the "RunScript" directive does not work.
Is this a wanted behavior or should I debug further and possibly open a bug report?

What I am experiencing is like the following:
There is job A referencing JobDefA which refrences JobDevB.
As long as JobDefA contains my RunScript everything works as expected.
If I move my RunScript to JobDefB it is no longer executed (no error or something - just like bareos cannot "see" it.

Thanks for any feedback in advance.

Script working:

Job {
Name = 'JobA'
...
JobDefs = 'JobDefA'
}

JobDefs {
Name = 'JobDefA'
JobDefs = 'JobDefB'
...
RunScript {
RunsWhen = Before
RunsOnClient = Yes
Command = "MyCommand"
}
}

JobDefs {
Name = 'JobDefB'
...
}

Script not working:

Job {
Name = 'JobA'

...
JobDefs = 'JobDefA'
}

JobDefs {
Name = 'JobDefA'
JobDefs = 'JobDefB'
...
}

JobDefs {
Name = 'JobDefB'
...

RunScript {
RunsWhen = Before
RunsOnClient = Yes
Command = "MyCommand"
}

}

Frank Ueberschar

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Apr 6, 2020, 12:45:44 PM4/6/20

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Using nested Jobdefs is possible, but not recommended:

First, it is undefinded behaviour how RunScripts get overwritten (or even cascaded).

Second, someone gets easy to configure a recursion and this cannot be solved automatically.

Therefore, this is not a bug. The intended behaviour in some future release would be to not allow nested jobdefs.

Am 04.04.20 um 15:15 schrieb Martin Krämer:

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Martin Krämer

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Apr 13, 2020, 2:15:45 AM4/13/20

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Thanks Frank for that information. - So if it is intended behaviour I will deal with it. :)

Never the less l I see Jobdefs as a highly important part of automated backup creations and bulk system management.
Creating a 100 times an individual job seem just a lot of overhead and prone to errors to me.

Furthermore I really hope there will be no such destructive change that will no longer allow nested jobdefs...

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