Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-24 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
John Lockard jlock...@umich.edu writes: But, priority also postpones any jobs of higher priority. If a job, of priority 20 is currently running and you start off several other jobs, with priorities of 10, 20 and 30, then the only jobs which will run concurrently will be the jobs of priority

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-23 Thread John Lockard
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:10:09AM -0700, Kevin Keane wrote: 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

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-21 Thread Kevin Keane
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

[Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
Hi All, I have a mix of disk and tape backups. To disk I allow up to 20 jobs run concurrently. On my tape library I have 3 tape drives, so only allow a max of 3 jobs to run concurrently. I run Full backups once a month, Differentials once a week and incrementals most days of the week. I would

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
I stand somewhat corrected. I was wrong in stating that priority of a job on a certain media blocked only jobs on that media. It actually blocks all other lower priority jobs from running no matter whether the lower priority job is on the same media or not. -John On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Drescher
I stand somewhat corrected.  I was wrong in stating that priority of a job on a certain media blocked only jobs on that media.  It actually blocks all other lower priority jobs from running no matter whether the lower priority job is on the same media or not. I find this makes priorities not

Re: [Bacula-users] Question about Priorities and Maximum Concurrent Jobs

2009-03-20 Thread John Lockard
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