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other hand, a Server restarts and completes a frame, it is flagged as active and
resumes rendering until the job is complete.
Direct Access To Jobs Path group
Job paths can be useful when dealing with situations where it's not conducive
to have jobs placed on the manager system. Such situations might be as follows:
■ You have a lack of drive space on the C: drive where Backburner is installed.
Drive D: has plenty of space so you set up a folder called MyJobs where jobs
will be placed when submitted. Enter a UNC path such as
\\machinename\MyJobs.
■ You're running a large render farm that causes a lot of network traffic on
the manager system that you use concurrently to build models. To alleviate
the traffic, you set up a shared job folder, backburnerJobs for example, on
a file server that is separate from the manager system. The UNC job path
would be set to \\fileserver\backburnerJobs and jobs you submit will be placed
on the file server.
Use Jobs Path Turning on this switch allows you to define the location of
jobs to be somewhere other than on the manager machine. This tells the
render servers to get the job files from the new location, therefore minimizing
the file I/O traffic on the manager.
Win32 Path Enter the path where jobs are located into this field or click the
Browse button to the right to search your system for the job location.
Unix Path This field functions the same as the Win32 path except you can
enter a Unix path structure.
Default Job Handling group
The settings in the Default Job Handling group allow a user to archive a
completed job to a specified location after x number of days, delete a completed
job after x number of days or just leave the job indefinitely in the queue.
Using these controls lets you maintain the job queue, clearing completed jobs
that can cause excess overhead and stress to the manager system, thus
instigating performance problems. The archiving functionality allows you to
automatically store files used for completed jobs.
NOTE These settings can be overridden from the Advanced Settings dialog on
page 6296 accessed from the
Network Job Assignment dialog on page 6279 .
Do Nothing When turned on, a completed job is left in the queue.
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