On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:26:28AM -0400, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote: > Continuing with my estimate saga... > > What would cause a level 1 backup of a DLE with gnutar > be as big as a full? Estimates are done with calcsize > and gnutar is 1.13.25 with amanda-2.4.5 > > Could it be that the gnutar-lists file is corrupted? > Looking at them I see that they all have the same size > for level 0 1 and 2...Normal? >
Are the gnutar-lists files current? I.e. are they being updated each night? My "similar" problem had the system creating *.NEW files, but never renaming them after the dump. So I was always using old list files. But "record no" (my problem) is not yours. I recall from your original post that you were having problems with same size dumps from DLEs the used gnutar and others that used xfsdump. The latter would not use gnutar-lists so I doubt the overall problem was there. But just in case, what about permissions/ownership on the gnutar-list directories and their parent paths. What about the curinfo files. Are they being updated nightly? The solution to my problem was triggered by a several year-old thread were all levels were the same size. The solution to that posters troubles was to stop running a script that nightly touched or chmod'ed all files on the DLEs. Might you be having a similar situation such that all "ls -l" or "ls -cl" timestamps are current thus making it look like they require backing up? -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
