Windows crossing midnight ... kind of like the GhostBusters crossing 
streams ... not healthy.

cheers, wayne

dbwallis wrote, in part,  on 2007-08-02 5:02 PM:
> Greenberg, Katherine (... wrote:
>   
>> It will do it by default, based on the backup that has not run in the
>> longest time being run first.
>>
>>
>> http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/268644.htm
>>
>>     
>
>
> This is what I see happening:
>
> The full backup window is 8:00 am Tuesday to 8:00 am Wednesday. Daily 
> incrementals run from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am daily.
>
> The full backups kick off at the scheduled time. 6:00 pm rolls around, and 
> since the fulls are still running, the incrementals queue up. They don't 
> actually start running until sometime early Wednesday. Come 6:00 Wednesday 
> night, some incrementals are still running, and some of the Wednesday night 
> incrementals get delayed, and sometimes it takes days for everything to get 
> caught up.
>
> SInce there isn't much need to run a full and incremental on the same file 
> system at the same time, I'd prefer just to skip the incrementals on Tuesday 
> (and Wednesday too, for that matter, since the full backups can run into 
> Wednesday sometimes) to avoid this problem.
>   
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