Bacula-users

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

2009-03-21 09:36:58
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Best way to backup simultaneously
From: Jason Dixon <jdixon AT omniti DOT com>
To: Kevin Keane <subscription AT kkeane DOT com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:27:28 -0400
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:02:48AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote:
> Jason Dixon wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:54:01PM -0400, John Lockard wrote:
> >   
> >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:11:55PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> 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.
> >
> > That's a misleading message.  Job 11239 had a Priority of 20.  Job 11242
> > had a Priority of 10.  I think the phrase "waiting for running jobs to
> > finish" would be more appropriate.
> >   
> What's the priority of jobs 11240 and 11241? My guess is that 11242 is 
> actually waiting for those two, rather than for 11239. They, in turn, 
> are waiting for 11239 due to a Max Concurrent Job.

11239-11241 are Priority = 20.  11242 is Priority = 10.
 
> "Waiting for running job to finish" would not be a good message, because 
> you would want to know *why* it is waiting. You see that 11240 and 11241 
> are also waiting for a running job to finish, just for a different reason.

It would be the *correct* message for 11242's state.  Because it is NOT
waiting for higher priority jobs to finish.  Why does it say that, when
this is clearly not the case?

-- 
Jason Dixon
OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.
jdixon AT omniti DOT com
443.325.1357 x.241

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