Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] scheduler: don't queue a job if it's already running

2008-04-29 06:01:28
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] scheduler: don't queue a job if it's already running
From: Petar Bogdanovic <petar AT smokva DOT net>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:17 +0200
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:48:11PM +0300, Silver Salonen wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008 12:41, Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we have to do a few backups over a slow and lossy line which makes those
> > backups pretty unpredictable. In our case, a job duration of more than
> > 24 hours is possible and if the link goes down for some reason a
> > successful job can even take days to complete (Reschedule On Error).
> > 
> > This scenario is not perfect, but it works and we have at least some
> > backups of the mentioned clients. Our scheduler however doesn't play
> > along and reschedules these jobs every day, which means that the queue
> > gets longer and longer after every `long' job.
> > 
> > I thought `Maximum Concurrent Jobs' is what I want, but unfortunately
> > (for me), MCJ=1 just prevents bacula from running two jobs with the same
> > name at the same time, it doesn't prevent it from queueing the job.
> > 
> > Is there something I missed?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Petar
> 
> Hello.
> 
> The list has just had a pretty good discussion about it and I showed one 
> possible solution too. See thread "duplicate full backups" started by Seth 
> Miller on 7th of April

`Max Wait Time' is exactly what I need, thanks a lot! :)

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