On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 12:29:41PM -0400, Bill Nolf wrote:
> Is there a way to run amdump in pre-dump mode?   Do are the estimates, 
> planner, etc
> but don't do the actual dump?  I have a couple of files systems with are 
> about 10 GB and the tape should
> hold a native 20 gb and compressed 40gb but planner won't back it up 
> because it is too large.

Not to my knowledge.

I presume you want this for analysis or debugging?

Have you looked at the debugging files in /tmp/amanda?  Between them
and the log files in your amanda config directory all the info you might
get from a "pre-dump mode" should be available.

The list might be able to offer some advice if it knew what
errors you had reported, your config, your environment, ...
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