Hi Bill,

Lifesaver! Thanks for the help, it works great simultaneously.

Kody

On Mon, Jul 1, 2024 at 11:02 AM Bill Arlofski <w...@protonmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/1/24 2:27 PM, Kody Rubio wrote:
> > Hi Bill,
> >
> > The following is the output of 'status director' when the jobs are
> waiting.
> >
> >   597  Back Full    146,973    667.8 G    fileserver-active         is
> running
> >   599  Back Incr          0         0               obsdata4
>        is waiting for higher priority jobs to finish
> >
> >
> >
> > It seems that "obsdata4" it is waiting for a higher priority job.
> > Although the fileserver-active job does not have a priority set in the
> config.
> > Also, obsdata4 has a Priority of 1 (highest), so I am currently unsure
> on why this is happening.
>
> Hello Kody,
>
> The default Priority is 10 if not set.
>
> So, you have a priority 10 job running `fileserver-active`, and a job with
> a different priority (1) waiting `obsdata4`
>
> The message `is waiting for higher priority jobs to finish` is a bit of a
> red herring. It does not matter if the other jobs
> have a higher or lower priority set, this will be the (misleading) message
> logged.
>
> If you want more than one job to run at the same time, they will need to
> be set to the same priority. Sure, you can also play
> with different priorities, and then enable "AllowMixedPrioritiy" in
> several places (your Job resources), but this will just
> lead to more confusing results, I am afraid. It is generally recommended
> to stick to the same priority for your normal backup
> and Restore Jobs, and then set the small number of "special" jobs (Admin,
> CopyControl, MigrationControl, Verify, etc) to
> something else so they they do not run as the same time as "normal" jobs.
>
> Check the default "Catalog" job to see that while the default Backup jobs
> are `priority = 10`, that job is 11 or 12 to make
> sure it is run only when all the other normal, nightly backups jobs have
> completed so that the catalog has all of the
> information for all of the night's jobs - except, of course itself. :)
>
> You will need to check the Director's Storage resource simply called
> `Autochanger` and make sure that it has
> `MaximumConcurrentJobs` > 1, and that your jobs expected to run at the
> same same time have the same priority and you should
> be able to make some progress.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Arlofski
> w...@protonmail.com
>
>

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