On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:13:49 +0100 Matija Nalis <mnalis+bac...@carnet.hr> wrote:
> 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 ? Because I prefer explicitly checking for the errors I know i need to handle :) > Would it not be easier to just use "Allow Duplicate Jobs = no" ? I reckon it would be. I didn't change this value, and http://www.bacula.org/5.0.x-manuals/en/main/main/New_Features_in_3_0_0.html#SECTION007101000000000000000 says it defaults to NO. Which is why I make sure via my own code things work properly ;) I will review the whole thing soon and see whether i've missed anything, thanks! B > > See > http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/New_Features.html#SECTION003101000000000000000 _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity." Frank Leahy I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
