Good point, then again there are also jobs being available based upon
the level of multiplexing being used (unless you write multiple
retention levels to the same tape)-- there are a lot of factors to
take into account.  What level of MPX do you have set on the STU?  How
many streams are feeding into it?  Are they part of different
policies? .. etc

On 4/5/07, briandiven at northwesternmutual.com
<briandiven at northwesternmutual.com> wrote:
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> True - however it is also time based.  Time wins the priority battle.
>
> A job with a priority of 5 scheduled at 10 PM would run before a job with a
> priority of 25 scheduled at 11 PM (assuming there were no resources
> available between 10-11 PM).
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> Behalf Of Ellis, Jason
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 1:23 PM
> To: nbu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Job Priority
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> A quick question about Job Priority:
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> I assume that Job Priority is relative, so if I where to set all the jobs to
> a priority of 25 they would be treated the same? The idea is to create a
> baseline, which allows me to setup some lower priority policies by
> specifying a lower job priority and conversely higher priority policies with
> a higher job priority.
>
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>
> Thank you in advanced!
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>
> Jason Ellis
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