On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:00:29PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > ** Note that the ordering of this is almost completely inflexible. > ** In particular: > ** (0) must preceed (5) > ** (1) must preceed (2) and (3) > ** (2) and (3) must preceed (4) > ** (4) must preceed (5) > ** (5) must preceed (6) and (7) > ** > ** Minimizing the time between (3) and (6) is highly desirable, > ** as that minimizes the window in which a checkpoint could > ** occur that would result in a backup that would require > ** catastrophic recovery when restored.
Egads. I badly want to express that as a makefile. 'make -j -f slapdbackup.mk' so you can get your ordering constraints, and yet take advantage of whatever parallel tasks you can. :) Is management of a HDB backend's directory any easier? > Philip Guenther > -- Brian Reichert <[email protected]> BSD admin/developer at large
