On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 10:10:10AM -0500, Jim Summers wrote:
McDonagh, Joe wrote:
Or you might try the very latest release of amanda which has
new features for estimating the size of a DLE.
The 2.4.5 options of server and calcsize are very fast.
Fast is good. Fast and 'accurate' is much better.
In your experience are the estimates a good match for the actual amount of data being backed up, full and incrementals?
After generating a quick perl to extract info from a sendsize.XXXXX.debug and comparing it to the ORIG-kB column in the mail report, it appears that calcsize is sort of a conservative estimator. It is very accurate on the level 0 and tends to overestimate the level 1,2,3,4.
The current run I had only had two level 0 and a bunch of level 1. So I will monitor for a few days more and see how the level 0 estimates do when I have more data.
If you think the list would like to see the data then let me know and I will send it out. I didn't want to in-line a bunch of data. Is it ok to send attachments to this list?
-- Jim Summers School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma -------------------------------------------------
