John Lockard wrote: > The minimum setting I have on Max Concurrent Jobs is on the > Tape Library and that's set to 3. It appears that priority > trumps all, unless the priority is the same or better. > > So, if I have one job that has priority of, say, 10, then > any job running on any other tape drive or virtual library > will sit and wait till that higher priority job to finish > before they'll begin. > > This also makes priority mostly useless for me as well. I > guess it would take care of situations where I'd want one > job to finish before a secondary or tertiary job starts, but > then I run the risk of another job postponing the 2nd and > 3rd job, which wouldn't be my intention I notice in the bacula sample configuration that priority is used to make sure the catalog backup always runs last. In that case, the behavior you describe (any other job postpones the lower-priority one, regardless of storage or pool) is exactly the desired behavior.
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