On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:00:29PM -0800, Philip Guenther wrote:
** Note that the ordering of this is almost completely inflexible. ** In particular: ** (0) must preceed (5) ** (1) must preceed (2) and (3) ** (2) and (3) must preceed (4) ** (4) must preceed (5) ** (5) must preceed (6) and (7) ** ** Minimizing the time between (3) and (6) is highly desirable, ** as that minimizes the window in which a checkpoint could ** occur that would result in a backup that would require ** catastrophic recovery when restored.
Egads. I badly want to express that as a makefile. 'make -j -f slapdbackup.mk' so you can get your ordering constraints, and yet take advantage of whatever parallel tasks you can. :)
Is management of a HDB backend's directory any easier?
Philip Guenther