What is the output of the "status dir" command when the Admin job is waiting?
When you say "Both jobs have set AllowMixedPriority = yes." do you mean all
jobs that are running at the time you want to Admin job to run?
__Martin
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:14:57 +0200, Justin Case said:
>
> Greetings to all,
>
> I have the simple Admin job "truncate-pools-all” (see further down) and I
> would like to be able to run it concurrently while some backup job “backup1"
> (see further down) is running. Lets say backup jobs have Priority = 20.
> The Runscript Console command has Priority = 10 and uses drive number 9,
> which is very likely not in use when the Admin job is started. The backup
> jobs usually use drive number 0. Both jobs have set AllowMixedPriority = yes.
> While I can successfully run this command in bconsole concurrently when a
> backup job is already running, when starting the Admin job the Bacula queuing
> algorithm puts this Admin job in the queue and it is waiting until the
> currently running backup job has finished. My understanding was that this is
> normal behaviour when AllowMixedPriority = no (default). However, I have
> explicitly enabled AllowMixedPriority and still it does not work. The
> MaximumConcurrentJobs are 5 or 20 in different components, except for the SD
> file autochanger drives, there it is set to 1.
>
> My first guess would be, that somehow the SD does not automagically make use
> of the available unoccupied drives of the autochanger (although the default
> behaviour should be AutoSelect = yes). So it tells the director that the
> drive is busy and then the director makes the Admin job wait.
> But I could also be wrong, as I am not an expert on Bacula topics.
>
> What would I need to change to get this to work as expected and described at
> the top of this mail?
>
> Thanks for considering my question and have a good time,
> J/C
>
>
> Job {
> Name = "truncate-pools-all"
> Type = "Admin"
> JobDefs = "default1"
> Enabled = no
> Runscript {
> RunsOnClient = no
> RunsWhen = "Before"
> Console = "truncate volume allpools storage=unraid-tier1-storage drive=9"
> }
> Priority = 10
> AllowDuplicateJobs = no
> AllowMixedPriority = yes
> }
>
> JobDefs {
> Name = "default1"
> Type = "Backup"
> Level = "Full"
> Messages = "Standard"
> Pool = "default1"
> FullBackupPool = "default1"
> IncrementalBackupPool = "default1"
> Client = “machine1"
> Fileset = "EmptyFileset"
> MaxFullInterval = 2678400
> SpoolAttributes = yes
> Priority = 20
> AllowIncompleteJobs = no
> Accurate = yes
> AllowDuplicateJobs = no
> }
>
> This is the backup job that is already running:
>
> Job {
> Name = “backup1"
> Pool = “pool1"
> FullBackupPool = “pool1"
> IncrementalBackupPool = “pool1"
> Fileset = “fs1"
> Schedule = “schd1"
> JobDefs = “default2"
> Enabled = yes
> AllowIncompleteJobs = no
> AllowDuplicateJobs = no
> AllowMixedPriority = yes
> }
>
> JobDefs {
> Name = “default2"
> Type = "Backup"
> Level = "Full"
> Messages = "Standard"
> Pool = "default1"
> Client = “machine1"
> Fileset = "EmptyFileset"
> Schedule = “sched2"
> Priority = 20
> Accurate = yes
> }
>
>
>
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