Setup guide

■ Right-click a job in the Job list and choose Suspend.
■ To reactivate, select the job, then do one of:
■ Click the Activate button
■ Tap Ctrl+A.
■ Right-click the job and choose Activate.
■ From the Jobs menu, choose Activate.
Modify job settings:
■ From the Jobs menu choose Edit Settings.
■ Right-click the job and choose Edit Settings.
■ Press Ctrl+J.
1 Select the job of interest in the Job list.
2 Display the current settings for the selected job:
3 Double-click the field of interest, and modify it as desired. If the job setting can be modified, you are
allowed to change it. Otherwise, the setting remains unchanged.
4 Modify the Job properties as desired.
5 The Backburner Manager can send job success, failure, and other notifications to the email addresses
you specify in the Notifications area.
Job properties
DescriptionItem
The description provided when the job was submitted to Backburner.Description
The job priority, from 0 to 100. Zero is the highest priority. 100 means the job is suspended.Priority
Depending on how your system administrator has configured the Backburner Manager, it either i) assigns
multiple tasks to each render node—that is, blocks of tasks (the default setting), or ii) assigns each render
node one task at a time. Enable to override the manager's configuration, for this particular job.
Override Task Blocks Setting
Enable to cause the manager to send render nodes blocks of tasks, for this job. Disable if you want each
render node to receive only one task at a time, for this job.
For example, enabling for frame-based render jobs results in each render node receiving a block of several
frames to render at once. Disabling results in frames being sent one at a time.
Enable Task Blocks
For this setting to have an effect, you must also enable Override Task Blocks Setting.
Overrides any Backburner Manager settings that restrict the maximum number of servers that can work
on this job at any one time.
Use All Available Servers
The maximum number of servers that can work on this job at any one time. Set this to zero to run on all
servers.
Server Limit
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