Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Keith Arbogast
Jim, Thanks for the new idea. I'll have to ponder that one. Best wishes, Keith

Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Keith Arbogast
Wanda, Thank you. It's helpful to know you have been doing that routinely. Best wishes, Keith

Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Schneider, Jim
Is it possible to control this with MAXSESSIONS? Associate a large number of servers with a long backup schedule and set MAXSESSIONS to 40. With a MAXSCHEDSESSIONS value of 50 (percent) you would only run 20 backups at a time. The optimistic UNTESTED result would be to start new backups when to s

Re: Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Prather, Wanda
>>Since this technique depends on Randomization working as well with long >>Schedule Durations as with shorter, does anyone have experience with >>Durations of four hours or more? Did it go alright? Do it all the time. Whenever I set up a new customer, I tell them to make the Duration window a