> Is there a good way to run just the estimating part of amanda, so that I
> can get an idea of the size that a dump is going to be, without actually
> running amdump? The one idea that I've had is to run amdump with a tapedev
> of null: (I'm using the tapeio branch), but that would still force my
> hosts to send backups over the network, just so I can get an estimate.
John R. Jackson told me ("Re: xfsdump estimates sometimes fail", Jul
23th, 2001):
> Sendsize may be run by hand. Look for an amandad*debug file with
> SERVICE sendsize. Take all the lines in the packet from the OPTIONS
> through the last DUMP line and put them in a temp file someplace.
> Then run sendsize by hand **as the Amanda user** with that file as
> standard input.
Thanks again, John - that really sorted out the problem to be a kernel
bug with XFS.
