Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-21 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* John R. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 07:53:20PM -0500) Next we need to examine the driver algorithm in more detail. Some of the base information is in the usenix paper on the ftp.amanda.org site. [8] If inparallel is set to three (or less), you don't have any "big"

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-20 Thread Ben Elliston
"John" == John R Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Planner generates the list of what to do based on size, requests for John special service (forced full dumps, etc) and so on. That's a text "file" John with one line per disk piped into driver. Does the planner consider the

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-20 Thread John R. Jackson
Wouldn't it be easer to (try and) change the code to use this priority field also for normal operation ? Possibly. I've wondered why the value is not used for this as well. It would be disgustingly easy (which may or may not be a good thing :-) -- we just need to change the sort routine used

tweaking the schedule

2001-02-19 Thread Ben Elliston
I have a couple of machines that are slow and poorly connected to my tape server. In every instance, I happen to *know* that if these machines were to appear first in the backup schedule, the backup would finish more quickly. Is there a way I can push them to the front? Ben

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-19 Thread John R. Jackson
I have a couple of machines that are slow and poorly connected to my tape server. In every instance, I happen to *know* that if these machines were to appear first in the backup schedule, the backup would finish more quickly. Is there a way I can push them to the front? That's harder than you

Re: tweaking the schedule

2001-02-19 Thread Chris Marble
Ben Elliston wrote: I have a couple of machines that are slow and poorly connected to my tape server. In every instance, I happen to *know* that if these machines were to appear first in the backup schedule, the backup would finish more quickly. Can you put in a delay time for all the