> Stan Horwitz 
> > 
> > Is that process (mminfo) still about my best way to generate the 
numbers,
> > or have I overlooked something obvious?
> 
> Yes, mminfo is probably your best tool for this task. You can script an
> mminfo command to run every night to summarize your backups in tabular 
form
> and add it onto the end of a file. Let it run for at least one month via 
a
> cron job a few minutes after midnight. You can take that file and import 
it
> into Excel or some other analysis tool such as SAS and generate some
> numbers.

Actually, now that I think about it, is there any reason to run it on 
anything less than our whole non-recyclable file dataset? We have matching 
browse/retention policies, neither of which are geologic in timeframe. 
That should give me a snapshot view (once I add up everything!) of our 
total usage at that point in time, which is really what I need.

Something along the line of :

# mminfo -ot -ar 'client,name,sscomp,pool,totalsize' -q 
'ssrecycle=false,pool=non_clone_pool[,pool=non_clone_pool ... ]'

...should be a decent place to start, with whatever other tweaks are 
required to boost accuracy and hence my confidence in the numbers.

I think. :-)

Thanks.

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