Hi, Jon,

on Mittwoch, 02. März 2005 at 19:10 you wrote to amanda-users:

JL> You mean TFM is sometimes inaccurate ;-))

You can bet on this.

JL> Grossly different meanings.  Yet I can see Paul B's description of his usage
JL> as fitting either actuality.  He indicated a "starttime 0200".  But if his
JL> amdump was run at about midnight, 2AM would also be about 2 hours after the
JL> start.

JL> Definitely needs clarification.  My dusted-off, little gray cells say the
JL> discussion when starttime was introduced covered things like laptops and
JL> PC's that were only on during work hours for sites that did overnight
JL> amdumps for their servers.  So I'd think the starttime argument was 
clocktime.

Anyone testing this?

JL> Sounds like availability of both could be useful

JL>         starttime 0430          # start at 4:30AM
JL>         starttime +200          # delay start by 2 hours.
JL>         starttime -100          # start 1 hour before amdump is started  :))

JL> BTW how is estimating and planning done when some DLEs are delayed for a 
while
JL> and may not even be on the network or booted when amdump starts?

Ever done a grep for "starttime" in the AMANDA-sources?
I did and it didn't give me any good answers yet ...
-- 
best regards,
Stefan

Stefan G. Weichinger
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