This is a very common issue that must be looked at carefully, this will be a large post and I apologize for it :P
Priority levels are very hard to manage/maintain since they can cause jobs to block! Meaning if a job has network (or other) issues and the Bacula server connection doesn't drop but the client does; you could be in a situation which I have faced numerous times over the last 3 years where over a weekend only the higher priority or equal to jobs will backup but others become stuck. I still use priorities (ex: catalog backup is 99, others are 1 to 10) but I've got other safe guards in place such as SD/FD timeouts to enforce job rescheduling (it requires you actually setup rescheduling parameters though and understand them, canceling a job may also reschedule it too - be warned) There's another gotcha that can be seen more with this sort of configuration (using priorities) where Bacula is trying to contact a client who behave well (port not open, firewalled, whatever) you may need to use a port checking program to check the remote host/port to see if it is open and if not error the job via runscript option (this is ran from the Bacula server, not client obviously), *this* problem I've had at least for over a year or so and was the only way to solve that specific issue. After doing all of the above priorities seem to work now... Heres the options you may want to look at for Job or JobDefs - this is straight from my config: Allow Mixed Priority = yes # Cancel, Error, Long running, Duplicate Job and Rerun control's go here Allow Duplicate Jobs = no Cancel Running Duplicates = yes # avoid weekend queue build ups... Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes Rerun Failed Levels = yes Reschedule On Error = yes Reschedule Interval = 15n #15n = 15 minute (most jobs reschedule after an hour, not this one) # Manually canceling a job may require canceling as many times as "Reschedule times" if set for. # Meaning it has to "reschedule" the job and you have to cancel it over and over until it is really considered cancelled... - Reschedule Times = 3 # 3 * Interval # if over 6h the job should be considered stuck, use this with caution! Max Run Time = 6h # the most important option to look at, what if we miss a full due to some error? # this needs to be set per client by looking at the schedule and deciding on best number to set: Max Full Interval=7 days +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by ccs...@hotmail.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
