# Option to resume multinode jobs
**URL:** https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244
**Category:** Developers
**Created:** [August 24, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244 "2020-08-24T07:42:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@zv0n](https://community.openpbs.org/u/zv0n)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2020, 7:42am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244/1 "2020-08-24T07:42:34Z")
Hello,
I’ve written a design document proposing changes which would enable resuming multi-node jobs. I believe this could be useful for times when you need to restart PBS processes in your infrastructure (for example when PBS update comes out) and don’t want to start job from scratch or limit your users to only single-node jobs in period leading up to the planned restart.
I’ve already programmed a (hopefully) working solution, but I’ll be glad for any feedback that would make this better!
Thans
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### Author:  [@zv0n](https://community.openpbs.org/u/zv0n)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 11:14am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244/2 "2020-08-31T11:14:55Z")
For some reason I can’t edit the original post, so here’s link to the proposal - [https://openpbs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PD/pages/2041839617/Add+option+to+resume+multinode+jobs](https://openpbs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/PD/pages/2041839617/Add+option+to+resume+multinode+jobs)
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### Author:  [@bayucan](https://community.openpbs.org/u/bayucan)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 4:38pm UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244/3 "2020-08-31T16:38:00Z")
I think the following entry in the design can be removed now:
“When saving tasks to disk, save obits (so when mom restarts it knows it should send an obit to MS)”
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### Author:  [@zv0n](https://community.openpbs.org/u/zv0n)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2020, 7:28am UTC](https://community.openpbs.org/t/option-to-resume-multinode-jobs/2244/4 "2020-09-14T07:28:35Z")
Thanks for the suggestion, it’s removed now