On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 07:48:29PM -0700, Michael Loftis wrote:
> Yes I'm aware p4+ is out...But I'm having a strange problem where my 
> planner promotes full dumps, but then complains about other full dumps 
> being delayed because the backup is too big?  This makes no sense, 
> shouldn't it incremental these other dumps in order to keep from delaying 
> these other full dumps?
> 
> Any ideas, hints, suggestions?  Need/want any additional info?  It just 
> seems pathological to do this ever.

Not really, remember that the planner is trying to balance media usage
over the full dumpcycle, not just today.  And for a specific example,
suppose your incrementals, obviously critically required, take up
90% of the available tape capacity.  Further, the DLE's it would like
to to do as full dumps will each take > 10%.  They can't be done.  But
if a small DLE is promoted today, there may be more room available on
the a future dump because that DLE doesn't require its full dump.

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