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Re: a bit off topic but ...
2003-03-12 12:30:57
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 at 2:47pm, Lars Segerlund wrote
> I was wondering how amanda estimates the backup size ?
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> is there a switch to tar to estimate the archive size without
> generating the file ?
What actually happens:
- gnu tar knows that if its output is to /dev/null,
it doesn't actually have to read the file contents.
- dump estimates dump size before it begins dumping.
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