Frank: Could it be that one statistic is reflecting the size after some form of 
data compression whereas the other reflects the true size? Just a thought. Bill
 > Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:57:59 -0400
> From: Frank.Swasey AT UVM DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] discrepancy in sizes reported
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> 
> I have a disk that is being backed up from a Windows server.  The system 
> administrator has no
> idea what is going on, but keeps asking me why it reports 2GB backed up when 
> it really has 2 TB
> of data on it.  I have watched during the backup by running:
> 
> printf "show session\nprint type:nsr\n" | nsradmin -i -
> 
> and I can see that the session reports that it is backing up the 2TB.  
> However, the savegrp
> notification that is mailed out lists just the 2GB (2040 MB to be exact). 
> 
> Would sparse files account for this difference in reported sizes?  Or should 
> I be looking for a
> real problem?
> 
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