Hi, Jon, on Mittwoch, 02. M�rz 2005 at 17:03 you wrote to amanda-users:
JL> Is there any way of specifying a relative value? Say "starttime +30" JL> so it would begin no less than 30 min after the first dump starts. JL> I guess it couldn't be after amdump starts because the estimate and JL> planning stage varies in length. JL> OK Jon, follow your own, oft given, advice, RTFM .... JL> Well there certainly is nothing in the man page describing relative JL> values, so I suspect I answered my own query. Perhaps it would be JL> a good "Wish List" item. It is relative when you read http://www.amanda.org/docs/using.html (still not formatted completely ...): > The starttime dumptype parameter delays a backup some amount of > time after AMANDA is started. The value is entered as HHMM, so 230, > for instance, would wait 2.5 hours. This may be used to delay > backups of some areas until they are known to be idle. The manpage says: > starttime "int" > Default: none. Backups will not start until after this time of > day. The value should be hh*100+mm, e.g. 6:30PM (18:30) would be > entered as 1830. No relativity here, you're right. CVS-Changelog: > Allow certain dumptypes to be kicked off at specific times. > Add a new, optional, parameter to the dumptype description in > the config file. The parameter is called "starttime" and takes > one argument which is a time of day (local timezone) formated > as either hhmm or hmm (no `.'s, no `:'s, just an integer). > define dumptype comp-user-2am { > comment "Non-root partitions on fast machines" > options compress-fast > priority medium > starttime 0200 > } > Any partitions listed in disklist with this dumptype will be > fired off no earlier than 2am. If 2am today is less than 43200 > seconds past (12 hours ago) it will assume you meant 2am today > and fire the dumps off right away. But if 2am today is more > than 12 hours in the past, it will wait till 2am tomorrow. > Patch from Brad Huntting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. This was AMANDA 2.3.0.4 ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
