amanda 2.4.2 (released); last amanda run finished around 08:00 AM local
time (it's a little over 7 hrs. later than that as I type).

Please note the following results:

eng-backup# date && amadmin Eng balance
Thu Jan 18 13:48:07 PST 2001

 due-date  #fs   orig KB    out KB  balance
-------------------------------------------
 1/18 Thu    0         0         0     --- 
 1/19 Fri    2     69877     31328   -99.8%
 1/20 Sat   26  25574348  15972096    +5.1%
 1/21 Sun    0         0         0     --- 
 1/22 Mon    2  16773273  14385600    -5.4%
 1/23 Tue   53  35821993  15029280    -1.1%
 1/24 Wed   41  34201022  16119680    +6.0%
 1/25 Thu   26  32693191  14476512    -4.8%
-------------------------------------------
TOTAL      150 145133704  76014496 15202899  (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle)
eng-backup# date && amadmin Eng balance
Thu Jan 18 15:14:11 PST 2001

 due-date  #fs   orig KB    out KB  balance
-------------------------------------------
 1/18 Thu    2     69877     31328   -99.8%
 1/19 Fri   25  25528144  15925888    +4.8%
 1/20 Sat    1     46204     46208   -99.7%
 1/21 Sun    2  16773273  14385600    -5.4%
 1/22 Mon   53  35821993  15029280    -1.1%
 1/23 Tue   41  34201022  16119680    +6.0%
 1/24 Wed   26  32693191  14476512    -4.8%
-------------------------------------------
TOTAL      150 145133704  76014496 15202899  (estimated 5 runs per dumpcycle)
eng-backup# 


The totals look the same (to me), but it looks as if some part of amanda
is making slightly different decisions on where a given file system's
(full) backup is (probably?) going to go based on time of day (even though
most of amanda that I recall has a "time granularity" of a day).

And the notion that I would want a backup done today when I already did
that is a little perplexing, too.

So... does anyone use "amadmin balance", and if so, what do you get out
of it?  (Yes, I realize that the man page says it summarizes the
distribution of full backups.  But given the above -- which is but the
beginning of a "backup migration" that "balance" would report between
now & the time the actual backups get started -- I confess to a bit of
curiousity on this....

Thanks,
david
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