On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:21:13AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On 11 March 2010 13:40, Norberto Meijome <numardbsd AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > I have a job that runs very frequently, and successive runs take different
> > sets of data (as determined by a pre-job script). To avoid problems, my
> > pre-job script sets a lock file and the post-clears it.
> >
> > When I configure my director for concurrent jobs = 2, i sometimes get 2 of
> > these jobs trying to run in parallel (which is understandable, many times a
> > run has more data than the average and is still running while the next one
> > is due). My pre-script will then cancel the execution of the 2nd script
> > (because it finds the lock file). Great.


Why the pre/post locking script ? 
Would it not be easier to just use "Allow Duplicate Jobs = no" ?

See
http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html#SECTION003101000000000000000



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