This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote:
>--On Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:51:11 +1100 Jamie Wilkinson <jaq AT 
>spacepants DOT org> wrote:
>
>> This one time, at band camp, Frank Smith wrote:
>>> After further thought I believe Alex was correct about the
>>> scheduler limiting itself to what will fit, so increasing
>>> runtapes to 2 should let you get incrementals of everthing
>>> on the day the full of your big DLE occurs.
>> 
>> I'm not seeing a post by Alex in this thread; can you perhaps help out my
>> poor brain with a URL?
>
>I don't see it in the archive either.  Perhaps he has an X-no-archive
>header set in his email, or perhaps I quoted the wrong person, or maybe
>I was just conversing silently with one of my other personalities ;-).
>
>Anyway Alex (if that was the correct name) made the point that the scheduler
>would only schedule tapesize*runtapes  bytes of backups, so that since the
>large DLE was due for a full, the scheduler picked that and just enough
>incrementals to fill the one allowed tape, skipping completely the rest of
>the DLEs, deferring them to a future run.
>
>It made sense once I thought about, so I was retracting my statement that
>the incrementals should have gone to available holdingdisk space, so there
>was no need to dig in the debug logs.

Thanks, that clears up that misunderstanding :-)