Rusty, your answer on the first question doesn't really get at what I
want. I want to NOT override the default settings. For example, if I change the
default priority for backups to 50000 (it's initially set to 0), but have 0 for
a policy's priority setting, at which priority is the policy evaluated? I think
that it should be at 50000 (which is what I want, to make all backups a higher
priority than duplications, for example), but the documentation is unclear,
given that it asserts that the policy priority will "override" the default
priority, but doesn't provide a NULL value for the policy
priority.
-- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems
Engineer gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556
Gabe,
For your first question, if I'm reading it right, any
policy set to 0 has the lowest priority. When creating a policy, the default
priority is 0 unless specified otherwise. I think that the two descriptions are
saying the same thing differently. Symantec has alluded in the past to wanting
to shore up these differences in all the different documentation.
For the second question, I have no
idea.
HTH,
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In my environments, there are already some policy priority settings in
place. For the most part, I would like to clear those and make use of default
priorities... but I'm hazy on what "clear" means.
The bpplinfo man page
says:
-priority priority
The priority of this policy in relation to
other policies.
Priority is greater than or equal to 0. This value
determines the order in which policies are
run. The higher the
value, the earlier the policy is run. The default is 0,
which is the lowest priority.
And the
6.5.2 documentation update says (on page 369):
bpplinfo Use
the -priority option to specify a new priority for the backup
job that overrides the default job
priority.
Has anyone yet determined empirically whether a priority
setting of 0 (which is the default if no priority is specified with bppolicynew)
on the policy is a special case that means "use the default" rather than
"override the default", even if the priority was previously set to a higher
number?
The 6.5.2 documentation update also mysteriously refers to a
"first" and "second" priority in the "Understanding the Job Priority setting"
section (on page 358):
The NetBackup Resource Broker (NBRB)
maintains resource requests for jobs in a queue. NBRB evaluates the
requests sequentially and sorts them based on the following
criteria: * The request's first priority. * The request's
second priority. * The birth time (when the Resource Broker receives
the request). The first priority is weighted more heavily than the
second priority, and the second priority is weighted more heavily than
the birth time.
Has anyone sorted out what "first" and "second" mean
here?
-- gabriel rosenkoetter Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems
Engineer gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231
1556
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