Jon LaBadie:

>>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.

Hmm . . looking at the man pages, you're right. But I remember playing with it 
some time ago & varying the starttime up & down my backup window, I got the 
impression it worked like it as absolute time. Perhaps I was just fooling 
myself - again.


Have a good New Year!


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toby bluhm
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