On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:48:29PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote: > Yes I'm aware p4+ is out...But I'm having a strange problem where my > planner promotes full dumps, but then complains about other full dumps > being delayed because the backup is too big? This makes no sense, > shouldn't it incremental these other dumps in order to keep from delaying > these other full dumps? > > Any ideas, hints, suggestions? Need/want any additional info? It just > seems pathological to do this ever.
Not really, remember that the planner is trying to balance media usage over the full dumpcycle, not just today. And for a specific example, suppose your incrementals, obviously critically required, take up 90% of the available tape capacity. Further, the DLE's it would like to to do as full dumps will each take > 10%. They can't be done. But if a small DLE is promoted today, there may be more room available on the a future dump because that DLE doesn't require its full dump. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
