> 
> 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

Hello Dan, nice to see you.
Yes, 3:04 jobs will all start before any 3:05 jobs regardless of their priority.
It seems AllowMixedPriority only works when higher priority jobs are submitted 
after lower jobs are already running, and never the opposite. At least it's 
what I understand from (Kern's ?) comment in the the source code: 
"bool allow_mixed_priority; /* Allow jobs with higher priority concurrently 
with this */"
Other way to prioritize jobs without creating a critical path between them is 
reorganizing their order like they appear in the bacula-dir.conf, I think even 
if they are in included split files.  

> —
> Dan Langille
> http://langille.org/

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