On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 12:56:13PM -0700, Daniel Swan/TM wrote:
> Lets assume I backup 15 NT servers, all of them associated with a  schedule
> named "NT-DAILY", which
> kicks off at midnite sharp, Doesn't this cause a huge spike in load at
> midnight sharp?  Is there a better way to spread this load, or do I have to
> create different schedules like:  "NT-DAILY-1AM", "NT-DAILY-2AM", and
> associate them with a few servers each?

It tends to be better to spread things out if you can then all your clients
don't hammer the database at the same time when they first start up.

I have a lot of big servers to backup and I tend to spread things out from
about 8pm til about 6am. To keep myself sane I name my schedules the time
they run and just directly associate the client with the time I want to have
it run:

adsm> q sched

Domain           *     Schedule Name        Action     Start Date/Time          
Duration     Period     Day
------------     -     ----------------     ------     --------------------     
--------     ------     ---
STANDARD               0000                 Inc Bk     10/27/1999 00:00:00      
    1 H        1 D      Any
STANDARD               0000                 Inc Bk     10/27/1999 00:00:00      
    1 H        1 D      Any
STANDARD               0100                 Inc Bk     10/27/1999 01:00:00      
    1 H        1 D      Any
[...]
STANDARD               2200                 Inc Bk     10/27/1999 22:00:00      
    1 H        1 D      Any
STANDARD               2300                 Inc Bk     10/27/1999 23:00:00      
    1 H        1 D      Any