On Fri, 23 May 2003 at 10:16am, tender(???) wrote

> hi, does amanda has a manner not to estimate the size?
> if data is huge, estimation would take days!

That depends on your definition of huge.  Last night, my big config took 
under an hour to estimate 250GB worth of data to backup.

> maybe we can set a block size each time amanda should backup,and amanda
> just manage the dir structure and proceed till that day a full dump
> finish.
> i.e , estimation sometimes takes too much time and i just hope amanda
> have a mode to backup.

Have you seen this?  Amanda needs to do estimates, period.

> i know that when compiling amanda client part, you can specify which
> program to use to actually backup,in this manner one can do something to
> backup database.

You can specify the backup program in the config files -- it doesn't need 
to be at compile time.  Also, as I've said, look in the archives for 
people running scripts to backup databases.

> but if in one box, i both have a database and a file system to
> backup,how to switch between the two? this is my case.

Have your script check the inputs to see if it's being pointed at the 
database.  If it is, dump the database to be backed up.  If not, just run 
the backup program.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University