is there a way to influence the planner not only such that it
balances out the space across all days, but also that it tries
spreading out level 0s across all hosts per day, so that I not end up
having one host dump all fs's at L0 one day, then the next host on the
next day?

While I can see scenarios in which it is desirable to have as many level0s
per host on the same day as possible, in my case I do backups over a slow
(ADSL via IPSEC VPN link), which take a long time. So I would like to
have it do at most 2 level0 dumps (out of abt 5 filesystems each) per
day per host?

the dumporder parameter is only checked by the driver, after the planner
made its decisions, right?

Finally, I would like to repear my question whether it's possible to
run the planner standalone to find out what it would do on the next run
without actually performing the backup..

thanks

Mathias Körber
mathias AT koerber DOT org