> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:14:48AM +0100, Robert Wirth wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Running Bacula 1.38.11, I want to change the MaxStartDelay of a job.
> > Situation:
> >
> > - several Jobs are started at 23:10 with priority 10
> > - the Catalog job is started at 23:15 with priority 13
> >
> > The MaxStartDelay for the Catalog job was 1 hour. This was to short
> > (it came from the misunderstanding of MaxStartDelay which, I now learned
> > to be likely a "MaxStartDelayAfterSchedule").
> > The Catalog is aborted (without an email warning/error message) because
> > higher jobs are still running 1 hour after it was _scheduled_ (and still
> > waiting for the higher jobs to complete).
> >
> > Manually run of the Catalog job in the morning works, thus the Job is ok.
> >
> > Now, I increased the MaxStartDelay in the bacula-dir.conf to 6 hours.
> > Quite long enough that all higher jobs are completed before. After
> > reloading the configuration using bconsole, nothing has changed :-(
> >
> > I wonder if the value of MaxStartDelay is buffered somewhere in the
> > Bacula DB, and changes on the configuration file will not proceed
> > without an update of the DB entries?
> > (I tried to find out the value of MaxStartDelay using bconsole's show,
> > but I can't find it).
> >
> > Any help welcome.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Robert
> >
> Hello Robert,
>
> if you just want to be sure that your catalog job runs after higher
> priority jobs pick a prio 10 for the higher prio and a 20 for the
> lower ones. The start times are ok with 23:10 for high and 23:15 for
> low prio. Now remove the MaxStartDelayAfterSchedule limit and set it
> to 0.
> That works for me in Bacula 2.24-7.
>
> Regards back
>
> --
> Matthias Baake
Hi Matthias,
no, did not work. Still no backup in the night, and successful backup
when started the next morning.
I'll now start the job automatically in the morning, locking out what
happens then...
Regards,
Robert
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