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K3vinK
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Feature Request: Priorization for TapeJobs

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Hi,
we asked if it is possible to somehow prioritize some tape jobs over other tape jobs (Case #04707222). The answer was no and we could create a feature request.

Our Problem:
We have a lot of tape jobs (almost one per backup job). These tape jobs start on sunday and sometimes run until wednesday (only for the fulls). Some tape jobs that finish during this automatically start f.e. at 9 AM on Tue / Wed and if some jobs from sunday are still in the queue, it happens that these "new" tape jobs (from tue / wed) with only incrementals are being procesed before some jobs with a full / from sunday.
The start time of the jobs has no impact, so this is no help to "prioritize" jobs.
We have some jobs that have a higher priority for us. We start them a few minutes before the rest, just to make sure they're processed first. This only works if everything finishes within 24h, which is not the case and is limited by the amount of drives assignes to that pool.

It would be nice if it is possible to create a custom priorization.
Our thinking was that it could be the starttime of the jobs or some more customisable solution like a custom priority between 1-100.
We are working on a concept to reduce the amout of tape jobs, but still, this will not completely resolve our issue.


Kind regards,
Kevin
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Re: Feature Request: Priorization for TapeJobs

Post by Egor Yakovlev » 1 person likes this post

Hi Kevin.

Interesting case for sure and thanks for sharing the reference case ID.
I will raise that question for internal discussion and possible improvements in future versions.

/Cheers!
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