KEVIN ZEMBOWER wrote:

I'm struggling to solve a "dump larger than tape" problem, and not
making much progress. I'm asking for suggestions and troubleshooting
techniques.

That's the correct diagnosis.
Long time ago, the estimates where done using smbclient builtin tar,
and trowing the result away.  This took ages of course, but it would
have been able to exclude some files.
Now amanda uses the builtin "du" command, very fast, but that command
has no way to given an exclude list.

Any suggestions on changes or procedures to overcome this problem?
I'm getting desperate; it's just been making level 1 backups for a
week now.

Maybe using the cygwin port of amanda and run amanda client software
on the machine itself, instead of using smbclient?
I've never tried it, but some people report it works very well (other
people report problems getting the thing basically working too :-) ).




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