Re: [Bacula-users] Concurrent Jobs (shouldn't be)

[Kjetil T. H. <kje...@li...>]

Alan Brown <aj...@ms...> writes:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Kjetil Torgrim Homme wrote:
>
>>    This directive is only implemented in version 2.5 and later.  When
>>    set to {\bf yes} (default {\bf no}), this job may run even if lower
>>    priority jobs are already running.  This means a high priority job
>>    will not have to wait for other jobs to finish before starting.
>>    The scheduler will only mix priorities when all running jobs have
>>    this set to true.
>
> There are some jobs which _must_ run exclusively for whatever reason.
>
> BackupCatalog is one of them.
>
> If you allow mixed priority jobs to run simultaneously, you also
> need some way of flagging a job as "exclusive"

this is accomplished by not setting Allow Mixed Priority on
BackupCatalog.

(also, you should set BackupCatalog to have a unique priority among
the jobs in your configuration -- but this is true regardless of
whether Allow Mixed Priority is set or not.)

-- 
regards,          | Redpill  _
Kjetil T. Homme   | Linpro  (_)