Re: What determines the order files(systems) get backed up?

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:

> >I am using amanda 4.2P2 and would like to be able to influence the order
> >files are backed up to tape.  I would prefer largest files first.  ...
 
> Note that such a change is likely to significantly reduce the amount of
> parallelism built into Amanda and increase the total run time.

Likely, but not necessarily.  I had a situation once where this would
have been a big win.  Would have shortened my run time approx 3 hours
every Wednesday.

-Mitch