NickFerrar
MIS
Is there anyway ins ARCserve 2000 to change from concurrent job exectuion to single job execution?
I have quite a complicated set up with an autoloader backing up a remote server with scripts scheduled via a command line. The first script formats the tape and backups up certain areas on the remote server and the other scripts are submitted a short period after and they are supposed to append to the tape just written to by the previous job once that finishes.
However what happens is the first job submits and runs OK but if the other jobs get submitted before it finishes then they time out waiting for a blank media (they are set to append to first media then overwrite any mdeia if it eeds a second tape). The device group the job uses has 3 slots assigned to it.
Ideally I want to make it so ARCserve only tries to run one job at a time, if a job is already running it just queues other jobs in the order they were submitted to the queue.
I can get around the problem (I think) by having only 1 slot allocated to the device group, which may cause it to realise the drive is already in use and to wait? The other optin I have is to set flags in the batch file that calls the scripts (and to only run the script if a flag is set by the previous job) but there's already a lot of flags being set for other reasons and I'd rather not over-complicate it...
I have quite a complicated set up with an autoloader backing up a remote server with scripts scheduled via a command line. The first script formats the tape and backups up certain areas on the remote server and the other scripts are submitted a short period after and they are supposed to append to the tape just written to by the previous job once that finishes.
However what happens is the first job submits and runs OK but if the other jobs get submitted before it finishes then they time out waiting for a blank media (they are set to append to first media then overwrite any mdeia if it eeds a second tape). The device group the job uses has 3 slots assigned to it.
Ideally I want to make it so ARCserve only tries to run one job at a time, if a job is already running it just queues other jobs in the order they were submitted to the queue.
I can get around the problem (I think) by having only 1 slot allocated to the device group, which may cause it to realise the drive is already in use and to wait? The other optin I have is to set flags in the batch file that calls the scripts (and to only run the script if a flag is set by the previous job) but there's already a lot of flags being set for other reasons and I'd rather not over-complicate it...