On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 01:18:33PM -0500, Len Philpot wrote:
> I know mminfo has the sumsize and totalsize, etc., fields, but AFAIK 
> that's apparently size-on-backup-media, not original 
> 'size-on-client-disk', and given compression it can vary
> significantly. 

It's size-of-stream-that-came-from-client.

So compression after the server receives the stream doesn't affect it.
Compression on the client would.  Can I assume you're using client
compression directives?

> Does anyone know of a way to determine the actual space requirements for a 
> given saveset (short of going host to host and looking at the current 
> actual size, which might not be the same, anyway)? Currently this is on a 
> 7.2 system (that will hopefully be going to 7.5x before too many
> moons! 

No, because I don't think the server is told the actual size (prior to
client compression).

I think we had a thread about this just last month or so.

-- 
Darren

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