Re: Estimate Disable/tweak patch?

--On October 20, 2005 1:40:00 PM -0400 Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu>wrote:

On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:13:55AM -0600, Michael Loftis enlightened us:

There was someone who had posted here or to hackers an AMANDA estimate
disabler tweak or patch.  I was wondering where this is.


Since 2.4.5b1 there are a couple of options for estimates in your
dumptype:

This sounds exactly like what I need.... Do you know if 2.4.5 server andclients can be intermixed with 2.4.4p3 (thereabouts) clients? I have abunch of machines being backed up that it will take a long time to get anew version out to, but I need this badly for my mailserver and mainfileserver if it indeed will speed things up. Right now the systems allwait for several hrs for the mail server, and the fileserver takes over twohrs too. Lots of files, lots of data.


* new 'estimate' dumptype option to select estimate type:
    CLIENT: estimate by the dumping program.
    CALCSIZE: estimate by the calcsize program, a lot faster but less
acurate.     SERVER: estimate based on statistic from previous run, take
second but             can be wrong on the estimate size.

I use CALCSIZE on my slow clients.

Matt

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