in reply to Using perl to manage child processes - critique my code.

If you can wrap the backup for a single run into a shell script, Dominus' runN script provides you with a very simple (and simplicistic) way of running n processes in parallel to work on a queue.

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Re^2: Using perl to manage child processes - critique my code.
by FatDog (Beadle) on Dec 18, 2008 at 15:45 UTC
    The real backup command IS a ksh script written by our DBA's for their own use so that might be a perfect thing for me to use. Thanks.