Jean-Louis,
Thank you, not sure what I was looking for (in http://wiki/zmanda.com's
amanda.conf page), perhaps I'd made assumptions about the parameter name
(must have been looking for some keyword not in the description, bad on
me) but it is clearly present and described.
I'll include this in a new definition for this client's DLE and see
how it works for us.
thank you,
Brian
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:08:41AM -0500, Jean-Louis Martineau wrote:
> On 01/25/2013 10:12 AM, Brian Cuttler wrote:
> >Hi Amanda users,
> >
> >Think I saw a reference to this at some point, but not finding
> >what I'm looking for on the wiki or in google (I may not be doing
> >the right search).
> >
> >I'm being asked by the admin of a specific machine if I can dump
> >the DLEs on that client later in the evening, they need to do some
> >wind-down after closing databases for the day.
> >
> >I don't really want to push amdump run's cron job later into the
> >evening, there are a lot of clients for this server and we want to
> >do what we can to make sure we are finished before start of business
> >the next day.
> >
> >Is there a way to delay the start of dump for the DLE during the
> >amanda run? I'd imagine a dumptype parameter, but I don't see it
> >listed and suspect that the implementation would be non-trivial, but
> >useful for cases like ours.
>
> man amanda.conf:
>
> DUMPTYPE SECTION
> starttime int
> Default: not set. Backup of these disks 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.
>
> I never use or tested this feature, let me know if it still works.
>
> Jean-Louis
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