Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously

2009-03-20 17:01:57
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously
From: John Lockard <jlockard AT umich DOT edu>
To: Jason Dixon <jdixon AT omniti DOT com>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:54:01 -0400
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 03:46:49PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> > 
> > Just to be certain, I kicked off a few OS jobs just prior to the
> > transaction log backup.  I also changed the Storage directive to use
> > "Maximum Concurrent Jobs = 1" for FileStorage.  This forces only one OS
> > job at a time.
> > 
> > I would expect the DatabaseArchives_crank-va-3 job (11242) to run before
> > the queued OS jobs (11240, 11241) but that isn't the case.  I don't know
> > why this reports the other jobs as a higher priority.  And remember that
> > these are using *different* storage devices.  The OS jobs use
> > FileStorage, the transaction logs backup to tape (SDX-700C).
> > 
> > 
> > Running Jobs:
> >  JobId Level   Name                       Status
> > ======================================================================
> >  11239 Increme  Unix_crank-va-4.2009-03-20_15.39.55 is running
> >  11240 Increme  Unix_puffer-va-3.2009-03-20_15.39.56 is waiting on max
> > Storage jobs
> >  11241 Increme  Unix_puffer-va-4.2009-03-20_15.39.57 is waiting on max
> > Storage jobs
> >  11242 Full    DatabaseArchives_crank-va-3.2009-03-20_15.40.59 is
> > waiting for higher priority jobs to finish
> > ====
> 
> Ok, it looks like these ran correctly after all.  I'm a bit perplexed
> why the Director reports 11242 as being lower priority, but at least it
> worked as designed.  Extracted from llist jobs:

>>From the run-times, the job order was 11239, 11242, 11240, 11241.
This would make sense, it just listed 11242 last, it was waiting
for 11239 to finish, thus the "waiting for higher priority jobs"
message.

> 
>            jobid: 11,239
>              job: Unix_crank-va-4.2009-03-20_15.39.55
>        schedtime: 2009-03-20 15:39:45
>        starttime: 2009-03-20 15:40:02
>          endtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:20
>      realendtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:20
> 
>            jobid: 11,240
>              job: Unix_puffer-va-3.2009-03-20_15.39.56
>        schedtime: 2009-03-20 15:39:48
>        starttime: 2009-03-20 15:40:28
>          endtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:39
>      realendtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:39
> 
>            jobid: 11,241
>              job: Unix_puffer-va-4.2009-03-20_15.39.57
>        schedtime: 2009-03-20 15:39:53
>        starttime: 2009-03-20 15:40:40
>          endtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:51
>      realendtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:51
> 
>            jobid: 11,242
>              job: DatabaseArchives_crank-va-3.2009-03-20_15.40.59
>        schedtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:02
>        starttime: 2009-03-20 15:40:21
>          endtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:28
>      realendtime: 2009-03-20 15:40:28

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