Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> This is a frequent question.  The answer is: no such statistic exists.  A 
> host 
> does not use a given amount of space at all.  All files are pooled, and one 
> cannot say how much of the pool a specific host uses, because there is 
> overlap.  
> Only the storage/transfer statistics per backup are relevant.
> 
> You could total up the transfer statistics for a rough guess, but again it 
> ignores pooling.
> 
> What problem are you trying to solve with this question? 

I just want to be able to tell the people using backup: "your server 
uses this amount of space in backup" (without taking non-technical 
people through what pooling is etc.).

Sort of "accounting" question.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


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