On Wednesday 31 December 2003 12:52, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:08:10AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Aaron Smith: >> > Is there a way to tell Amanda something along the >> > lines >> >> of "When coming >> >> >up with your schedule of which machine to back up first, always >> > do THESE two machines first..."? >> >> You could use the "starttime" parameter in the DLE and give it an >> absolute time to start the backup. > >Is that an absolute time it will start or a "not before" time? >Perhaps to force one to run earliest, the others should have a >starttime set to later than the dump begins. > >Another option that "may" help is the dumporder option. I'm > guessing the DLE of interest, being a database, is large, possibly > the largest DLE. With dumporder you can specify do the larger one > first. > >jl
That should help Jon, although it seems the actual dumporder string is just a hint. It will start the big one first, but unless spindle numbers get in the way, it will do smaller ones first, as they become available, until the big one is ready to tape. Or at least thats how it seemed to work here. But that should move it up enough to fix the original posters problem I'd think. -- Cheers, Gene AMD [EMAIL PROTECTED] 320M [EMAIL PROTECTED] 512M 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
