What are "reader" jobs and how can I control them?

[Bubbagump210]

My PBS server is a running a huge number of "reader" jobs. They started at 13:00 today and I don't really have any idea what they are. Verification jobs are run hours earlier and all jobs show as OK. Any ideas what these jobs are? Example:

2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: starting new backup reader datastore 'PBS-Greenmeadows-1': "/pbs1"
2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: protocol upgrade done
2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: GET /download
2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: download "/pbs1/vm/120/2022-03-28T05:04:13Z/index.json.blob"
2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: reader finished successfully
2022-03-29T13:39:22-04:00: TASK OK

 

[dcsapak]

normally 'read' jobs are happening when a client restores a vm, or accesses any part of the backup content (e.g. starting a file restore).

 

[Bubbagump210]

Strange. It ran a read job for every host that had a backup. There were no restores or the like happening at the time and it started at exactly 13:00... followed by many multiple read jobs - one per backed up host. See screen shots...

 

[fluxX04]

Hi,

do you have a sync job configured?

Greetz

 

[Bubbagump210]

Aha! Yes, indeed. That explains it. Thank you!