On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 08:56:04AM -0700, Paul G. Allen wrote:
> When I run amdump, I see in the process list that tar is being run with
> option --file /dev/null. /dev/null does not appear anywhere in
> amanda.conf nor am I using ftape (since I have a SCSI-2 changer).
> 

It does that during the estimate phase.

Figures out how big dumps at particular dumplevels would be.

Later it decides which level to use and does the actual dumps.

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