This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote: >--On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:51:11 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL >PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote: >>> After further thought I believe Alex was correct about the >>> scheduler limiting itself to what will fit, so increasing >>> runtapes to 2 should let you get incrementals of everthing >>> on the day the full of your big DLE occurs. >> >> I'm not seeing a post by Alex in this thread; can you perhaps help out my >> poor brain with a URL? > >I don't see it in the archive either. Perhaps he has an X-no-archive >header set in his email, or perhaps I quoted the wrong person, or maybe >I was just conversing silently with one of my other personalities ;-). > >Anyway Alex (if that was the correct name) made the point that the scheduler >would only schedule tapesize*runtapes bytes of backups, so that since the >large DLE was due for a full, the scheduler picked that and just enough >incrementals to fill the one allowed tape, skipping completely the rest of >the DLEs, deferring them to a future run. > >It made sense once I thought about, so I was retracting my statement that >the incrementals should have gone to available holdingdisk space, so there >was no need to dig in the debug logs.
Thanks, that clears up that misunderstanding :-)