Thanks to Brian and Chris for your answers on this topic. As I found out, there is no mechanism to make Amanda stop at a particular time. That's ok, though. I wasn't too thrilled about the idea of stopping my backup. It's likely that the day I do something like that, I need that backup. :-)
I am going to experiment with upping my settings to 8 dumpers and see if that helps. I will probably move my backup start time a few hours earlier, too. Jeff On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 01:45, Chris Marble wrote: > Jeffery Smith wrote: > > > > Can any one tell me if there is a way to set a stop time for backups? I > > am not thrilled about this idea, but some of my backups do run a bit > > long and I am getting complaints some mornings when there are many level > > 0 dumps. > > No way that I can think of. You could start backups earlier. You > could increase maxdumps. You could lengthen your dumpcycle so Amanda won't > have to fit as many level 0s on a tape. > Would you really want unfinished backups to abort? You could do that > with some kill commands in cron. > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - HMC UNIX Systems Manager > My opinions are my own and probably don't represent anything anyway.
