Hi, Jon, on Mittwoch, 02. M�rz 2005 at 19:10 you wrote to amanda-users:
JL> You mean TFM is sometimes inaccurate ;-)) You can bet on this. JL> Grossly different meanings. Yet I can see Paul B's description of his usage JL> as fitting either actuality. He indicated a "starttime 0200". But if his JL> amdump was run at about midnight, 2AM would also be about 2 hours after the JL> start. JL> Definitely needs clarification. My dusted-off, little gray cells say the JL> discussion when starttime was introduced covered things like laptops and JL> PC's that were only on during work hours for sites that did overnight JL> amdumps for their servers. So I'd think the starttime argument was clocktime. Anyone testing this? JL> Sounds like availability of both could be useful JL> starttime 0430 # start at 4:30AM JL> starttime +200 # delay start by 2 hours. JL> starttime -100 # start 1 hour before amdump is started :)) JL> BTW how is estimating and planning done when some DLEs are delayed for a while JL> and may not even be on the network or booted when amdump starts? Ever done a grep for "starttime" in the AMANDA-sources? I did and it didn't give me any good answers yet ... -- best regards, Stefan Stefan G. Weichinger mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
