Greetings all; I asked this question once before, without becoming educated, so I'll ask it again.
amanda-3.3.7 server, whatever is in wheezy clients. Anytime the planner issues the comment in the email I get, that a certain DLE has been advanced to the last level, 2 in this case, it always then does, without the planner announcing it, a level 0 of that DLE, which when its my home directory, is a 35+ Gigabyte dump and that bumps the size of the expected dump total by around 20 Gigabytes. Bear in mind the estimate method used is now history based since asking for an estimate freezes amanda about 10% of the time and no backup is made when this occurs. Can anyone make a sensible argument for why it does this unexpected level 0? Based on that, I just added 4 more DLE's, to reduce the size of those 5 DLE's to a more manageable size, each one specifying one of the big subdirs in my home tree, and made an exclude list file for the /home/gene DLE that excludes those big directories. amcheck seems happy, so we'll see what happens tomorrow morning. But it seems to me that either I am confused, or amanda is, someplace AFTER the planner. Comments? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Some mill pix are at: Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene/GO704-pix>
