On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:08:10AM -0600, tobias.bluhm AT philips DOT com wrote:
> Aaron Smith:
> 
> >                Is there a way to tell Amanda something along the lines 
> of "When coming
> >up with your schedule of which machine to back up first, always do THESE
> >two machines first..."?
> 
> 
> You could  use the "starttime" parameter in the DLE and give it an 
> absolute time to start the backup.

Is that an absolute time it will start or a "not before" time?
Perhaps to force one to run earliest, the others should have a
starttime set to later than the dump begins.

Another option that "may" help is the dumporder option.  I'm guessing
the DLE of interest, being a database, is large, possibly the largest
DLE.  With dumporder you can specify do the larger one first.

jl
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