On 7/29/25 11:07 AM, Kelly Price wrote:
Hi I have a number of servers, some which are quite large (50TB+). I also have some servers that are relatively small. I do monthly full backups, weekly differential, and daily incremental backups. The problem I’m having is that the smaller servers complete their full backup, then wait until the bigger servers have completed their full backups before starting on differential and incremental backups. There should be no interdependencies between servers. I have Maximum Concurrent Jobs set to 16, Allow Duplicate Jobs = no, Cancel Lower Level Duplicates = yes, Cancel Queued Duplicates = yes, and Cancel Running Duplicates = no. The jobs all have the same priority set.Is there a setting change which will allow the smaller servers to continue with lower level jobs while the larger servers are still doing full backups? Thanks, Kelly
Hello Kelly,At first glance, and without seeing any configs, logs, or status outputs, and since you stated they all run with the same priority, this sounds like a "MaximumConcurrentJobs" issue to me.
While the smaller server jobs are waiting, what is the `status director` (`s dir` for those of us who type as little as possible :), showing at this time?
MaximumConcurrentJobs is set in a lot of places: - Director - File Daemon - Storage Daemon - Storage Daemon Device - Director Client Resource - Director Storage Resource - Job ResourceThese are off the top of my head, and I may have missed one or two... But any one of these could be the cause and the status director will lead us to the cause, which might lead us to the next cause, and so on, until we open all the gates. :)
Could also be something like a disk Autochanger does not have enough devices available for all the concurrent jobs you are wanting to run concurrently.
Could also be that at some point, a Catalog job (default priority 11) enters the queue and it will wait until the priority 10 jobs finish, and then, any of the jobs for the smaller servers that enter the queue after this priority 11 job enters it, they will wait in line until that job finishes.
There is an "AllowMixedPriority" setting, but I don't like to play with that as it just adds more confusion and complexity to the equation.
Lots of places to look... Let's start with the status director when you enter this situation. Best regards, Bill -- Bill Arlofski w...@protonmail.com
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