Re: [bareos-users] Way to prevent from cumulating jobs
On 09.06.2020 11:30, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 09/06/2020 11:24, Spadajspadaj wrote: Hi there. I'm wondering whether there is a reasonable way to prevent bareos from scheduling jobs from same client in quick succession. Here's what I mean. We have a bareos setup with a single tape drive. The jobs are scheduled daily with Inc/Diff/Full schedule. If we fail to change tape as requested (sometimes there's noone on site for few days), the jobs are getting queued and if we finally do put a new tape in, all queued jobs are getting executed. The optimal solution would be to execute just one job for each client from the period that we had no tape available (of course with highest job level in case of different levels queued through few days). But I don't see a nice way to do that. I wouldn't want the jobs to have short timeout and fail quickly (I suppose that would work, finally job on lower levels would get promoted if there was no appropriate higher level job available, right?) but that would mess job status with many failed jobs. But if it's the only way... You can use the Cancel options from https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#job-resource. Something like: Allow Duplicate Jobs = false Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = true Cancel Queued Duplicates = true That's exactly what I needed. Thank you! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/bb772b07-8b20-75c5-9c68-c28f6a9d13bc%40gmail.com.
Re: [bareos-users] Way to prevent from cumulating jobs
On 09/06/2020 11:24, Spadajspadaj wrote: Hi there. I'm wondering whether there is a reasonable way to prevent bareos from scheduling jobs from same client in quick succession. Here's what I mean. We have a bareos setup with a single tape drive. The jobs are scheduled daily with Inc/Diff/Full schedule. If we fail to change tape as requested (sometimes there's noone on site for few days), the jobs are getting queued and if we finally do put a new tape in, all queued jobs are getting executed. The optimal solution would be to execute just one job for each client from the period that we had no tape available (of course with highest job level in case of different levels queued through few days). But I don't see a nice way to do that. I wouldn't want the jobs to have short timeout and fail quickly (I suppose that would work, finally job on lower levels would get promoted if there was no appropriate higher level job available, right?) but that would mess job status with many failed jobs. But if it's the only way... You can use the Cancel options from https://docs.bareos.org/Configuration/Director.html#job-resource. Something like: Allow Duplicate Jobs = false Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = true Cancel Queued Duplicates = true -- Andrei -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/174f0816-33c3-1f60-47af-60a9d19c4b4a%40gmail.com.
[bareos-users] Way to prevent from cumulating jobs
Hi there. I'm wondering whether there is a reasonable way to prevent bareos from scheduling jobs from same client in quick succession. Here's what I mean. We have a bareos setup with a single tape drive. The jobs are scheduled daily with Inc/Diff/Full schedule. If we fail to change tape as requested (sometimes there's noone on site for few days), the jobs are getting queued and if we finally do put a new tape in, all queued jobs are getting executed. The optimal solution would be to execute just one job for each client from the period that we had no tape available (of course with highest job level in case of different levels queued through few days). But I don't see a nice way to do that. I wouldn't want the jobs to have short timeout and fail quickly (I suppose that would work, finally job on lower levels would get promoted if there was no appropriate higher level job available, right?) but that would mess job status with many failed jobs. But if it's the only way... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to bareos-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bareos-users/63fb2302-c4e0-e5fb-a84d-e72d1a16efdb%40gmail.com.
