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Re: [Bacula-users] Job running order

2012-07-05 06:08:07
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Job running order
From: Mario Moder <lists AT demaio DOT de>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:05:49 +0200
Am 05.07.2012 11:44, schrieb Gandalf Corvotempesta:
> Il giorno gio, 05/07/2012 alle 11.32 +0200, Mario Moder ha scritto:
>> If one job must finish before another starts, you should use lower
>> priorities (higher numbers) for the "later" jobs as you already tried.
>>
>> If the jobs should only _start_ in a specific order, no matter when they
>> finish you could just set them to different starting minutes (1:00h,
>> 1:01h, 1:02h, etc) with the same priority. IMHO that's a very vague
>> concept and it doesn't scale.
>
> Actually I have 90 jobs scheduled with same priority and starting
> time at 00:30
>
> One of this jobs will take 9 hours to complete. Actually, this time
> consuming job is the 80 in the list and will start at 09:00 in the
> morning, after other 79 (ran in batch of 8, due to Maximum Concurrent
> Jobs)
>
> I would like to move this job to be ran at first, but I can't use
> priority because will block any other job for at least 9 hours.
>
> So, should I set schedule time for this job one minute less than
> others ?

Yes that's what we do here too in our setup for long-running jobs. This 
way, they just run parallel to the others.

Perhaps you should use data-spooling for parallel running jobs. See the 
documentation for "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" in the director resource.

Mario


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