Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

2008-10-06 09:29:25
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)
From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kjetilho AT linpro DOT no>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:58:42 +0200
Alan Brown <ajb2 AT mssl.ucl.ac DOT uk> writes:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>
>>    This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later.  When
>>    set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower
>>    priority jobs are already running.  This means a high priority job
>>    will not have to wait for other jobs to finish before starting.
>>    The scheduler will only mix priorities when all running jobs have
>>    this set to true.
>
> There are some jobs which _must_ run exclusively for whatever reason.
>
> BackupCatalog is one of them.
>
> If you allow mixed priority jobs to run simultaneously, you also
> need some way of flagging a job as "exclusive"

this is accomplished by not setting Allow Mixed Priority on
BackupCatalog.

(also, you should set BackupCatalog to have a unique priority among
the jobs in your configuration -- but this is true regardless of
whether Allow Mixed Priority is set or not.)

-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)


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