Hello... Since upgrading amanda, I'm seeing estimates ( via amstatus) way larger than they should be. I went from something before 2.5.1p3 , to 2.5.2, to 2.5.1p3, 2.5.2, 2.5.1p3, and now 2.5.1p3-20070516 ( on rhel4 x86_86 ). The wrong estimates could be a result of going back and forth between versions, but I doubt it. The estimates seem to be consistantly about twice what they should be. The "how many tapes do I need" part of amdump seems to work correctly, so this might be a pure amstatus display issue. On the DLEs that I can see individually and are relatively stable in size, the real dump size is about 50% of the estimate and the compression is also about 50%. So I suspect something is using the original size instead of the compressed size.
in amanda.conf: compress client estimate server encrypt server server_encrypt "/usr/sbin/amcrypt-ossl-asym" and a number of DLEs with: skip-incr from amstatus: (something like) wait for writing: xx 8301m 16420m ( 50.56%) ( xx.xx%) from amadmin info client compressed size, Full: 54.1%, 54.1%, 54.1% compressed size, Full: 54.7%, 54.7%, 54.7% etc. OR since the difference for me is twice as large, or half as large, depending of how you look at it ;) the problem could also be a division/multiplication error somewhere. e.g. (total/4) vs (total/3) vs. (total/2) -- Christopher McCrory "The guy that keeps the servers running" To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
