Running functions/processes in parallell

[Anon]

Another try...

I got a database backup script running, it reads in a config file for 10 Sybase database servers and for each database in each server it runs a dump database command to backup the databases to files.
The problem is that this is taking far too long to run sequentially, i need to run the backups in parallell. I have created a function that, for each server, issues a \"select name from sysdatabases\" and then for each databse runs the \"dump database $name to /path/to/file\". How can i run the script for more then 1 server at a time?

Please help a lonesome dba.

//dbaBert

[nightowl]

You need to put it in different scripts (files) and load those seperately. Different browser-windows if you do it manually, different items in the cron-job if you do it in unix...