Re: [Bacula-users] duplicate job control

Well, the manual reads like this:
>>>>

Allow Higher Duplicates = <yes|no>

If this directive is set to yes (default) the job with a higher priority (lower priority number) will be permitted to run. If the priorities of the two jobs are the same, the outcome is determined by other directives (see below).
>>>>>>

At the minimum, it should read "If the priorities of the two jobs are the same and this directive is set to no, the outcome is determined..."

In my opinion the other two directives should apply for jobs with the same priority even when AllowHigherDuplicates is set to yes (and then the manual would be correct).

nicolae

Silver Salonen wrote:

On Friday 31 July 2009 11:41:29 Bram Vandoren wrote:

Dear All,
Bacula (3.0.2) is configured to make daily backups of some systems. Full
backups unfortunately take more then one day to complete and I want to
avoid that duplicate jobs start (or are queued) before the full backup
is completed.

No duplicate job control directives are configured. If I understand the
manual correctly (perhaps it's an interpretation error of me)
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html#SECTION00310000000000
0000000 this should not happen.

I had a quick look in the source code and found this code in
 src/dird/job.c:

bool allow_duplicate_job(JCR *jcr)
{
   JOB *job = jcr->job;
   JCR *djcr;                /* possible duplicate */

   if (job->AllowDuplicateJobs) {
      return true;
   }
   if (!job->AllowHigherDuplicates) {
	--> code related to "Cancel Queued Duplicates: and "Cancel Running
Duplicates" here
   }
   return true;
}

Apparently "Cancel Queued Duplicates" and "Cancel Running Duplicates"
are only evaluated when "Allow Higher Duplicates" is set to "no" - not
default. Is this an error in the documentation, code or me not correctly
understanding the manual or code?

Kind regards,
Bram Vandoren.

Well, yes, this is how Bacula handles duplicate jobs. To my experience. What's 
the error in documentation?

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