2015-10-19 1:06 GMT+02:00 Walter Landry <[email protected]>:
>
> Hello,
>
> I administer a fairly busy system that runs about about 30,000 jobs a
> day. I would like to set up an automatic failover system so that I
> can take the scheduler down and have a backup scheduler handle jobs.
> I see that there is a BackupController option in the config files, but
> I am unclear how it actually works. Does it replicate the jobs
> database, so that if I start job 1138 on the master scheduler, will
> the backup scheduler also see the same job 1138?
>
> Thank you,
> Walter Landry
>
so... from man slurm.conf about BackupController
"[...]The backup controller recovers state information from the
StateSaveLocation directory,
which must be readable and writable from both the primary and
backup controllers.[...]"
