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"Compression Ratio" misprinting on labels

2004-08-23 21:45:48
Subject: "Compression Ratio" misprinting on labels
From: Phil Homewood <pdh AT snapgear DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:40:13 +1000
Hi,
 
Anyone else seeing the "Compression Ratio" as printed on
paper (postscript) labels being wildly inaccurate under
2.4.4p2?
 
An example, transcribed from last night's dump:
 
Total Size:             19547.7 MB
Tape Used (%)           63.1 %
Compression Ratio:      254.9 %
 
however, the emailed report got it right:
 
Output Size (meg)       19547.7    16125.2     3422.4
Original Size (meg)     25040.5    18786.2     6254.3
Avg Compressed Size (%)    77.6       85.8       50.9   (level:#disks ...)
[...]
Tape Used (%)              63.1       52.0       11.0   (level:#disks ...)
 
This seems to have started occurring sometime since
2.4.4 (not sure now whether 2.4.4p1 behaved, but I
know 2.4.4 was good.) Anyone?
-- 
Phil Homewood, Systems Janitor, http://www.SnapGear.com
pdh AT snapgear DOT com Ph: +61 7 3435 2810 Fx: +61 7 3891 3630
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