Hello,

I haven't looked at this in detail, but if a Job is re-run, then it clearly 
should keep a job slot filled.  However, if the Job is put on a queue to be 
run later (i.e. you have a reschedule time, which you did not mention), then 
I will need to look at this in more detail as it would seem logical to me 
that if a job is not running because it is waiting in a queue, it probably 
should not be counted.  It all depends on what is really implemented in 
Bacula.

I cannot say at this point whether or not this is a bug, but I suggest you 
open a bug report (otherwise this problem will be lost), then we will look at 
it, but please be a bit more specific about what parameters are set and what 
is actually happening.

Best regards,

Kern

On Friday 29 January 2010 09:54:25 Alex Ehrlich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> With Bacula 3.0.3, if I set "Reschedule On Error" to YES then every job
> rescheduled this way uses up one "concurrent job": it becomes listed in
> Running Jobs with status "... is waiting for its start time".
>
> So when the Director's "Maximum Concurrent Jobs" is set to 5 (default)
> then if 5 jobs have  been rescheduled then no more will be started (even
> if they could be started -- no errors expected). Backup becomes blocked
> effectively.
>
> I believe it is a bug or misbehaviour. I am not sure but I don't
> remember such problems with 2.4.
> Suggestion: do not count "jobs 'running' with such a status" in the
> Maximum Concurrent Jobs limit.
>
> Alex Ehrlich
>
> P.S. Background: I use "reschedule on error" to attempt to backup our
> laptops. As laptops might be present or absent at a given time, the idea
> was to try everyone at 10:00, if it fails then 3 hours later (13:00)
> then again 3 hours later (16:00) and again (19:00) -- it would
> reasonably cover working hours. Maybe there is a better way to set up
> backup of laptops?



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