Also, its good to make sure your amanda server isn't using automounting.

Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

Hi, Rich,

on Mittwoch, 13. April 2005 at 22:25 you wrote to amanda-users:

RH> My question is, is there any way of either a) parallelizing the
RH> estimates so they get done in a somewhat timely fashion, or b) ignoring
RH> the estimates entirely and just get to work doing backups, making
RH> whatever assumptons are necessary?

AMANDA 2.4.5 will make you happy (again):

This release brings so-called server-estimates which reduce
estimate-times radically.

2.4.5 is soon to come, snapshots of 2.4.5b1 are already available and
working stable.

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