On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 11:21:13AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On 11 March 2010 13:40, Norberto Meijome <numard...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I have a job that runs very frequently, and successive runs take different > > sets of data (as determined by a pre-job script). To avoid problems, my > > pre-job script sets a lock file and the post-clears it. > > > > When I configure my director for concurrent jobs = 2, i sometimes get 2 of > > these jobs trying to run in parallel (which is understandable, many times a > > run has more data than the average and is still running while the next one > > is due). My pre-script will then cancel the execution of the 2nd script > > (because it finds the lock file). Great.
Why the pre/post locking script ? Would it not be easier to just use "Allow Duplicate Jobs = no" ? See http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html#SECTION003101000000000000000 -- Matija Nalis Odjel racunalno-informacijskih sustava i servisa Hrvatska akademska i istrazivacka mreza - CARNet Josipa Marohnica 5, 10000 Zagreb tel. +385 1 6661 616, fax. +385 1 6661 766 www.CARNet.hr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
