> I thought about changing the job priority. However, Bill as you mentioned, I
> read the caveat in the manual about the lower priority jobs having to wait
> until the higher priority ones finish. This won't work for my situation
> because
> some of these jobs run for 12 hours. At the moment, changing the job schedule
> is difficult because of the way we are set up. But, I guess I'm going to have
> to figure out way around this.
Hello Craig: no, you won't. Did you read Bill's paragraph about "Allow Mixed
Priority" directive?
> -craig
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> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Bill Arlofski < waa-bac...@revpol.com >
> wrote:
>> On 10/28/2015 07:23 PM, Craig Shiroma wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > Currently, all my backups start at a certain time of the day. The order in
>> > which Bacula runs them appears to be alphabetically. I have some long
>> > running
>> > backups. I was wondering if there is a way to start these jobs first
>> > instead
>> > of wait until it's their turn alphabetically without having to put them on
>> > a
>> > different schedule?
>> > Best regards,
>> > Craig
>> Hi Craig,
>> You can set the priority of the jobs to a lower number, making them a higher
>> priority (default Priority is 10). If they are using the same schedule and
>> start at the same time as the other jobs, the jobs with a higher priority
>> will
>> run first.
>> But, the caveat is that all other jobs of a lower priority (or different
>> priority even) will wait until these jobs with a higher priority finish.
>> Take a look at the "Priority" and the "AllowMixedPriority" Job options to see
>> why you may (or may not) want to use priorities in your jobs.
>> Another option is to create different schedules and assign the jobs you want
>> to start first to a schedule that runs earlier.
>> Hope this helps.
>> Bill
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