On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 04:44:37PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> Well, I have no idea how much of that 21GB changed -- have a look at the 
> estimate which will be in /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug and in an amdump.N 
> file.  Also, only 10GB or so was written to tape from that fs.  It also 
> depends on how compressible the data is (which amanda should have 
> historical data on).

There's no way that that much stuff could have changed on this system.
Here's some info from previous reports:

Feb 20
backup       /dev/hda1   1  290350 272640  93.9   1:303032.2
3:081453.1

Feb 19
backup       /dev/hda1   0 18282101114784  61.0   6:192938.1
12:561436.8

Feb 18
backup       /dev/hda1   1    5660    960  17.0   0:02 512.1   0:02
551.7

Feb 15
backup       /dev/hda1   0 18282401114688  61.0   6:402786.4
14:131306.5

Feb 14
backup       /dev/hda1   1    5820    992  17.0   0:02 566.0   0:02
593.6

Feb 13
backup       /dev/hda1   1    5830    992  17.0   0:02 533.4   0:02
587.6

The only difference I can think of is, this past week, I started getting
STRANGE backups for this disk.  Looking into that told me that the files
changed while the backup was running.  Understandable, but odd that I
hadn't seen those for several weeks, and now suddenly see them every
day.  So I added /tmp and /dev to the exclude file yesterday.

As for /tmp/amanda/sendsize*debug

sendsize: debug 1 pid 28619 ruid 33 euid 33: start at Fri Feb 21
02:00:00 2003
sendsize: version 2.4.3
sendsize[28619]: time 0.004: waiting for any estimate child
sendsize[28621]: time 0.004: calculating for amname '/dev/hda1', dirname
'/', sp
indle -1
sendsize[28621]: time 0.004: getting size via gnutar for /dev/hda1 level
0
sendsize[28621]: time 0.005: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
sendsize[28621]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
--directory /
 --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/backup_dev_
hda1_0.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sen
dsize._dev_hda1.20030221020000.exclude .
sendsize[28621]: time 6.741: Total bytes written: 21664235520 (20GB,
2.9GB/s)
sendsize[28621]: time 6.742: .....
sendsize[28621]: estimate time for /dev/hda1 level 0: 6.736
sendsize[28621]: estimate size for /dev/hda1 level 0: 21156480 KB
sendsize[28621]: time 6.742: waiting for /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" child
sendsize[28621]: time 6.742: after /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" wait
sendsize[28621]: time 6.743: getting size via gnutar for /dev/hda1 level
1
sendsize[28621]: time 6.796: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
sendsize[28621]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
--directory /
 --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/backup_dev_
hda1_1.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sen
dsize._dev_hda1.20030221020007.exclude .
sendsize[28621]: time 8.784: Total bytes written: 20476559360 (19GB,
9.5GB/s)
sendsize[28621]: time 8.785: .....
sendsize[28621]: estimate time for /dev/hda1 level 1: 1.988
sendsize[28621]: estimate size for /dev/hda1 level 1: 19996640 KB
sendsize[28621]: time 8.785: waiting for /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" child
sendsize[28621]: time 8.785: after /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" wait
sendsize[28621]: time 8.785: getting size via gnutar for /dev/hda1 level
2
sendsize[28621]: time 8.827: spawning /usr/lib/amanda/runtar in pipeline
sendsize[28621]: argument list: /bin/tar --create --file /dev/null
--directory /
 --one-file-system --listed-incremental
/var/lib/amanda/gnutar-lists/backup_dev_
hda1_2.new --sparse --ignore-failed-read --totals --exclude-from
/tmp/amanda/sen
dsize._dev_hda1.20030221020009.exclude .
sendsize[28621]: time 10.426: Total bytes written: 20476518400 (19GB,
9.5GB/s)
sendsize[28621]: time 10.427: .....
sendsize[28621]: estimate time for /dev/hda1 level 2: 1.600
sendsize[28621]: estimate size for /dev/hda1 level 2: 19996600 KB
sendsize[28621]: time 10.427: waiting for /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" child
sendsize[28621]: time 10.427: after /bin/tar "/dev/hda1" wait
sendsize[28621]: time 10.427: done with amname '/dev/hda1', dirname '/',
spindle
 -1
sendsize[28619]: time 10.428: child 28621 terminated normally
sendsize: time 10.428: pid 28619 finish time Fri Feb 21 02:00:11 2003

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