Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:46:42 -0500 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > Steve wrote at about 12:02:32 -0400 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009: > > > Is there a parameter that sets priority of once backup over another, > > > or do all the BackupPC_dump processes start at the same level? Maybe > > > that would be a $Conf that could be added... > > > evets > > > > That sounds like an interesting suggestion. > > > > But for your purposes where it seems like you want to de-prioritize > > all dumps relative to BackupPC_nightly, maybe just alias the relevant > > commands in _InstallDir/bin to include the nice. > > > > I don't think priorities will make much difference. This is much more > about disk head position than CPU timeslices. If the nightly process > runs at all it's going to keep yanking the head away from where the > backup runs want it to be. >
Well, then you could always wrap Backup_nightly in a script that renices priorities of dump prices to 20 - but that is a certainly not pretty and also that assumes that you are running nightly outside of your backup window so that no new dumps start... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
