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. Here's a sample of what I see in the Director Status: Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client4Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client4Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client3Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client3Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client2Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client2Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client1Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client1Homes SSLI-064 VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client1Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client2Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client3Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client4Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client4Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client3Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client2Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client1Nikola.Verify Here's a sample of what I would like to see: Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client4Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client4Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client3Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client3Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client2Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client2Homes SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client1Nikola SSLI-064 Incremental Backup 10 30-Jul-09 21:00 Client1Homes SSLI-064 VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client4Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client4Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client3Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client3Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client2Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client2Homes.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client1Nikola.Verify VolumeToCatalog Verify 10 30-Jul-09 21:45 Client1Homes.Verify Any ideas or suggestions? Does anyone know the algorithm used to queue the jobs? Thanks! +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by tomisom.s...@gmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users