=> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David E Ehresman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Why not just kick off all the work you need to do?
> Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for
> restores and/or ad hoc backups.
I'm jealous; I haven't had enough tapes to do this for
>Why not just kick off all the work you need to do?
Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for
restores and/or ad hoc backups.
And also so I know when a set of processes have ended so that I can
start the next job in the daily processes stream, i.e. backup stg disks,
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>Why not just kick off all the work you need to do?
Because I have an obligation to keep at least one tape drive free for
restores and/or ad hoc backups.
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pool) some of which check and find all up to date, some of which do work.
This method saves you logic and actlog lines of your script constantly
polling, and it further uses the tape drives during the lag between when a
process completes, and when your script next polls.
- Allen S. Rout
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I use the following shell script function to wail until the number of
backup processes are down to a specified number:
#
# waitonbkp function - waits until fewer than $maxconcurrent
# bkps are running;
# checks after 15 seconds then every 5
minutes
gpool backup script
> Currently my backup script is sequential. I have been wondering if
> there is a way to use all my available drives but I don't want to go
the
> way of using maxpr=2 because some of my backups are very large files
> like 60+ GB in size, I could be doing other thi
> Currently my backup script is sequential. I have been wondering if
> there is a way to use all my available drives but I don't want to go the
> way of using maxpr=2 because some of my backups are very large files
> like 60+ GB in size, I could be doing other things while that goes on.
>
> I woul
Currently my backup script is sequential. I have been wondering if
there is a way to use all my available drives but I don't want to go the
way of using maxpr=2 because some of my backups are very large files
like 60+ GB in size, I could be doing other things while that goes on.
I would like to r
