Re: [Bacula-users] How do Jobs Queue?

[Martin S. <ma...@li...>]

>>>>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:23:33 -0400, teksupptom  said:
> 
> Greetings!
> 
> I've been working on adding automated Verify jobs to my configuration. I'd
> like to abuse my tape drive as little as possible, so I have the backups set
> to run as a group, then the verifies set to run at a later time as a group.
> 
> On a normal weeknight (like tonight), I have two Incremental jobs for each
> client, backing up two different FileSets. The Scheduled queue in the
> Director status for tonight shows my normal Incremental jobs, apparently
> sorted by client, starting with the last client in the config file and going
> backwards to the first client. These jobs are set to start at the same time.
> 
> After this section I see the Verify jobs listed. The odd thing is that the
> list begins with the verify for one fileset only, listing that job from the
> first client in the configuration file to the last, and then lists the other
> verify job from the last client to the first. This will cause a ton of tape
> movement.
> 
> What I was hoping to see would be that the backups would proceed as normal,
> both jobs for each client, then the verify jobs would follow the same
> pattern, so that the tape used would only need to rewind and move forward
> one time.

I think they are considered in the order that the Job definitions appear in
the bacula-dir.conf.

To guarantee the order, it is best to use different priorities.  I use
priorities 1, 2, 3 etc for the backups and 201, 202, 203 etc for the
corresponding verifies.

__Martin