Article ID: 5197
Reviewed: 27/09/2016

Product Version:
AhsayCBS: 7.9.0.0 or above
OS: All platforms

How do I increase the number of scheduled concurrent agentless Cloud File and Office 365 Exchange backup jobs on my AhsayCBS server?

Cloud File and Office 365 Exchange Online agentless backup jobs are supported since AhsayCBS version 7.9.0.0.

To ensure agentless backup jobs do not consume all available memory of the AhsayCBS server, the maximum number of scheduled concurrent agentless backup jobs is limited to 2 by default (each agentless backup job requires an average of 170 MB of Java heap memory, for agentless backup sets that contain a lot of files / folder, the memory requirement will increase in proportion).

If the number of backup jobs exceed the maximum concurrent setting, then backup status of any additional jobs will be set to pending, AhsayCBS will attempt to retry and start the pending backup job(s) every minute, until the job can be successfully started.

Note:
Although scheduled agentless backup jobs are restricted by default, there is no restriction on the maximum number of concurrent manual backup or restore jobs that can be started via the AhsayCBS web console.

To increase the maximum number of concurrent Cloud File and Office 365 Exchange scheduled backup jobs on AhsayCBS:

1. Stop the AhsayCBS service.


2. Open the afc.opt file in the following path, with a text editor
   
   ${CBS_Install_Home}/conf/


3. Add the following line to the end of the file:
   
   -Dcom.ahsay.obs.core.job.ScheduleBackup.MaxConcurrentJob=MAX_NUMBER
   
   For example, to set the maximum number of concurrent scheduled agentless jobs to 20:
   
   

   afc.opt

   ...

   -Dcom.ahsay.obs.core.job.ScheduleBackup.MaxConcurrentJob=20

   ...

4. Save and exit from the text editor.


5. Restart your AhsayCBS service.