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
active backup sessions A bar graph of our active backup sessions during the night is far from a Golden Rectangle. It's more like a big city skyline. We are backing up 510 clients now, but that number is increasing steadily. I am mulling over ways to smooth our session load. The hoped for be

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

Smoothing active backup sessions

2011-05-27 Thread Keith Arbogast
A bar graph of our active backup sessions during the night is far from a Golden Rectangle. It's more like a big city skyline. We are backing up 510 clients now, but that number is increasing steadily. I am mulling over ways to smooth our session load. The hoped for benefit would be to make more