Start high priority backup job in front of other queued jobs
Netbackup 7.0 for Windows
I have several backup policies, each with dozens of clients. I encounted an issue where I needed to execute an Exchange server backup immediately, so I started a manual backup from my Exchange backup policy in the NBU admin console. This policy is already set to have a higher priority than my other policies, so I thought that, when the next backup device was freed up, that the exchange job would take precedence over the other jobs in the queue. However, the other queued jobs from my other policies started instead.
Is there a way to force a manual job in front of other jobs that are already queued, other than canceling all the other jobs first?
if the resources are already in use and available for lower priority jobs, then those lower priority jobs will start in preference to your high priority jobs if resources are not available for the latter (the main resource here would tend to be tape drive(s)).
Again, to concur with Bob, the only was around this would be to suspend those lower priority jobs that are taking up the resource(s) that are required for your high priority job. This should also include any queued jobs that are liable to utilise those same resources - if you suspend only the active jobs then, as the media is still loaded, the queued jobs will then become active.