jrj wrote:
>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.
In the case of the full dump only two days into the cycle, it seems that
dump on that workstation reported an identical size for levels 0 and 1, so
of course, Amanda decided that level 1 was unwise and did a level 0.
Today, it did a realistic level 1 of 700KB. Why should I be seeing this
strange behaviour early on when Amanda has little backup history? Does it
keep this backup history over many dump cycles?
Ben
