> Dave wrote: > >> ... it would be very useful if I could tell >> it to write the latest backups of, say, the NFS server's /home and the >> partition that holds the company's primary database first ... > > The schedule is passed from planner to driver via a normal Unix shell > pipeline in the amdump script. You could insert a filter of your own > to fake the estimated time field down to zero to trick driver into > doing important things first. Or, at 2.4.3, we could probably add a > new dumporder flag to do things by priority, or something like that. > > John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Wouldn't it be simpler to just set a 'starttime' value for all the 'unimportant' disks so that all the dumpers will do the 'important' ones first? FRank -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
