>When amstatus reports on estimates, are these supposed to be the estimates
>for the volume of data dumped at the specified dump level? ...
Yes. They are the estimates for the level Amanda picked to be done.
>Every day when
>Amanda runs, I see the same huge estimates for disks that, once backed up,
>only had a few hundred KB of incrementals to do.
You might poke through the amdump.<NN> files. The first part is the
estimating phase and it's not too hard to see the results coming back.
If those are really wrong, the next place I'd look is a typical
/tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug file on a client and see what's going on
in there.
You really don't want those estimates to be way off. It can severely
confuse Amanda. Not to the point of doing something terribly wrong,
but easily to the point of doing more work than it should.
>Ben
John R. Jackson, Technical Software Specialist, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
