Jason Edgecombe wrote:

Can the estimate phase of amanda be bypassed or disabled?

If so, what are the implications?

Then amanda doesn't have a clue to choose the level of backup
to get optimal use of the tape capacity.

If you're using gnutar to do the backup and it's gnutar that is
too slow for you, and you're brave, you could patch calcsize
to give a quicker estimate. Someone already once did that.
Search the archives, starting with:

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amanda-hackers/message/2541

In particular cases you could even massage the output of df in your
modified calcsize.  Buf if the numbers you feed amanda don't reflect
reality, don't blame amanda for taking less accurate decisions afterwards.

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