All jobs must have an associated client with suitable MaximumConcurrentJobs,
even if they don't use a client. It is a feature :-(
__Martin
>>>>> On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 21:13:00 +0200, Justin Case said:
>
> This seemed to say that the director’s client limit MaximumConcurrentJobs = 1
> was hit. WHen I changed it to MaximumConcurrentJobs = 5 I was able to run the
> Admin job concurrently.
>
> I still don’t understand why this job would count against the client job
> limit, as I thought that it is a job that does something on the SD, not on
> the client / FD. Do you understand this?
>
> > On 20. Apr 2023, at 20:55, Justin Case <jus7inc...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> >> On 20. Apr 2023, at 20:38, Martin Simmons <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> What is the output of the "status dir" command when the Admin job is
> >> waiting?
> >>
> > it says for the Admin job: is waiting on max Client jobs
> > what does that mean?
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> > For now I have job running for testing, and the Admin job, and both have
> > AllowMixedPriority = yes.
> >
> >>
> >>>>>>> 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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