Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> 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.

Just look at the 'compression summary' table on each host page.  If you add the 
new and existing files for the first full and the new files for subsequent 
backups you should be pretty close.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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