JobDefs that reference another JobDefs

[Jon Schewe]

I found that I can have a Job reference a JobDefs defs1 and that reference  JobDefs defs2 and that appears to work.

However having a Job reference JobDefs defs1 which references JobDefs defs2 which references JobDefs defs3.

Is it expected that a JobDefs can reference another JobDefs?

If yes, is it expected that nesting more than 1 level doesn't work?

Having this nesting is handy to avoid duplicating configuration data, however I understand that this may be hard to implement.

Jon

[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

Hi Jon, yes a JobDefs can reference a JobDefs see 

https://docs.bareos.org/bareos-23/Configuration/Director.html#config-Dir_Job_JobDefs

but also take into account the restriction about some parameter that will not be replaced but added ;-)

I personally prefer to have dedicated jobdefs with only one level to simplify the human comprehension of the configuration ;-)

[Jon Schewe]

OK, then I should file a bug report if I am finding that multiple levels of JobDefs aren't working? My top level JobDefs has the backup type specified and if I have a Job reference a JobDefs 2 levels down from the top I get an error from bareos that the backup type is not specified.

[Bruno Friedmann (bruno-at-bareos)]

Hi at least you want  want to expose first a simple case here. 

How you think you should work with example, and the problem you're experimenting...

[Jon Schewe]

Attached you will find 3 JobDefs files that refer to each other in a chain. You will also find a test job. When test-job refers to level3 JobsDefs the output of loading the configuration is:

*reload
failed to reload
You have messages.
*messages
28-Oct 16:54 bareos-dir JobId 0: Error: "Type" directive in Job "test-job" resource is required, but not found.
28-Oct 16:54 bareos-dir JobId 0: Error: Please correct the configuration in /etc/bareos/bareos-dir.d/*/*.conf
28-Oct 16:54 bareos-dir JobId 0: Error: Resetting to previous configuration.

When test-job refers to level2 JobDefs everything is fine.