On 3/13/2013 4:20 PM, Brad Alexander wrote:
> Hey,
>  I've been playing with this gant.pl <http://gant.pl> script from the 
> other thread, which showed visual evidence of something I already 
> knew. Most of my backups fire within about a 30 minute period. I 
> already knew this, as I've also seen load average complaints out of 
> nagios because of all of the backups running at once. I had it this 
> way once, where I started backups by hand every 30 minutes or so...But 
> then after a power failure, they all started at once.
>
> So I'm wondering, is there a way to better force a better distribution 
> of backup jobs during the day?

If you lower the number of concurrent backups, they will be forced to 
spread out more.

Alternately, you can manually start the backups periodically throughout 
the day.  After that, they should stay pretty close to the schedule you 
used.

-- 
Bowie

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