THANK YOU Richard! You are a national treasure.... Wanda
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Richard Sims <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Wanda Prather wrote: > > The accounting log has multiple fields for the session: >> >> backup transactions >> backup KB >> total transmitted >> >> On a backup, you'll find the total transmitted is significantly >> higher than >> the total backed up. >> That's the difference in the metadata. >> >> Now what I can't remember, is whether the backup KB includes the >> retries or >> not.... Richard? >> >> W >> > > Hi, Wanda - > > From what I've seen, the dsmaccnt backup KB records the actual amount > of data going into server storage pools, which excludes retries. > > Note that the "Total number of bytes transferred" summary statistic > reflects traffic which flows from the client to the server, in Data > verbs. The flow of Active files inventory information from the server > to the client at the start of an Incremental backup is thus not > included in that number. Dsmaccnt records a Session KB number, which > does account for the flow in both directions. Also, with backup of > ordinary directories and empty files in Unix, such objects do not > participate in Data verbs because they only constitute attributes for > database storage, not storage pool data. > > Richard Sims, at Boston University >
