[Bacula-users] high priority job not running

Hi all, we are using bacula 5.2.6. I have disk-based storage with 4devices defined, and 20 max concurrent jobs for the storage demon. Allthe file demons also have 20 max concurrent jobs. In the director, ithas 10 max concurrent jobs, the DefaultJob JobDefs is used for all jobs,which has Priority=10 and Allow Mixed Priority=yes. Thus all thescheduled backup jobs run with 10 priority. The current situation isthat 4 jobs can be run at once, due to the storage device limitation.Now i have created a priority 1 restore job for one of our clients whichneeded a new OS disk, which i wanted to run immediately as soon as oneof the current jobs finishes and frees up a storage device. However,this restore job was stuck "waiting for higher priority jobs to finish"even after one of the priority 10 jobs finished and only 3 of the 4storage devices were used. In fact, this priority 1 restore job did notrun until all 4 of the priority 10 jobs were finished or cancelled byme. I thought the Allow Mixed Priority=yes would allow for the restorejob to run as soon as a storage device became available, but apparentlyI am missing something and it has caused me to cancel some backup jobsthat were running for some days, so now am behind schedule. Can you letme know what may have been overlooked, and how i could have run apriority 1 restore job immediately?

Thanks


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