Les Mikesell wrote at about 11:46:42 -0500 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009:
 > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > Steve wrote at about 12:02:32 -0400 on Tuesday, September 1, 2009:
 > >  > Is there a parameter that sets priority of once backup over another,
 > >  > or do all the BackupPC_dump processes start at the same level?  Maybe
 > >  > that would be a $Conf that could be added...
 > >  > evets
 > > 
 > > That sounds like an interesting suggestion.
 > > 
 > > But for your purposes where it seems like you want to de-prioritize
 > > all dumps relative to BackupPC_nightly, maybe just alias the relevant
 > > commands in _InstallDir/bin to include the nice.
 > > 
 > 
 > I don't think priorities will make much difference.  This is much more 
 > about disk head position than CPU timeslices.  If the nightly process 
 > runs at all it's going to keep yanking the head away from where the 
 > backup runs want it to be.
 > 

Well, then you could always wrap Backup_nightly in a script that
renices priorities of dump prices to 20 - but that is a certainly not
pretty and also that assumes that you are running nightly outside of
your backup window so that no new dumps start...

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