On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:07 AM, Phil Stracchino <phils AT caerllewys DOT net> wrote:

On 10/28/15 19:23, Craig Shiroma wrote:

Hello,

Currently, all my backups start at a certain time of the day.  The order
in which Bacula runs them appears to be alphabetically.  I have some
long running backups.  I was wondering if there is a way to start these
jobs first instead of wait until it's their turn alphabetically without
having to put them on a different schedule?

If you need jobs to run concurrently, but start in a specified order,
pretty much the only way you can accomplish it is to assign them to
staged schedules.

I like that this thread appeared.  It is something I have been thinking about for a week or two.

I have three categories of jobs:

- backups
- catalog backup
- initiate copy jobs

Those groups need to run in that order and concurrent backup jobs are allowed. This is achieved by
setting a different priority on each of those groups.

However, within the backups, I would prefer the longer running jobs to start first.  This is to
minimize the total elapsed time.

"Allow Mixed Priority" is not an option for me because backing up the catalog cannot start 
until everything is backed up.

An interesting point about:  "Allow Mixed Priority" - "The scheduler will only mix priorities when all running jobs have this set to true"

This is what most jobs use now:

Schedule {
  Name = "WeeklyCycle"
  Run = Level=Full         1st     sun at 03:05 
  Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 03:05
  Run = Level=Incremental  mon-sat     at 03:05
}

If I wanted my longer running jobs to start first, I could add this and alter the jobs accordingly:

Schedule {
  Name = "WeeklyCycleFirst"
  Run = Level=Full         1st     sun at 03:04
  Run = Level=Differential 2nd-5th sun at 03:04
  Run = Level=Incremental  mon-sat     at 03:04
}

Am I correct here? all jobs scheduled for 3:04 will be started before any jobs scheduled for 3:05

— 
Dan Langille
http://langille.org/






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