On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:40 AM Austin S. Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2018-11-15 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I ask because after last nights run it showed one huge and 3 teeny level > > 0's for the 4 new dle's. So I just re-adjusted the locations of some > > categories and broke the big one up into 2 pieces. "./[A-P]*" > > and ./[Q-Z]*", so the next run will have 5 new dle's. > > > > But an estimate does not show the new names that results in. I've even > > took the estimate assignment calcsize back out of the global dumptype, > > which ack the manpage, forces the estimates to be derived from a dummy > > run of tar, didn't help. > > > > Clues? Having this info from an estimate query might take a couple hours, > > but it sure would be helpfull when redesigning ones dle's. > I'm fairly certain you can't, because it specifically shows server-side > estimates, which have no data to work from if there has never been a > dump run for the DLE. > What would be the downside to having the amanda client execute ' du -s' or some such on the DLE and return the results when amcheck and friends realize there is no reliable size estimate? This would seem to be a much more accurate estimate than a non-existent server estimate. Chris
