On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 16:16 -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> > SUCCESS dumper filename /files/share1 20050627 0 [sec 326.117 kb 550813
> > kps 1689.0 orig-kb 1843300]
> > SUCCESS taper fileserver /files/share1 20050627 0 [sec 34.484 kb 550814
> > kps 15972.6 {wr: writers 17214 rdwait 0.383 wrwait 29.156 filemark
> > 2.233}]
> > 
> > That directory *should* contain 1.8 GB of files to backup, so I'm unsure
> 
> And that's how much amanda backed up -- "orig-kb 1843300".  It took 
> 326.117 seconds, the compressed size of the backup was 550813 kb, and the 
> dump rate was 1689 kb/s.

Ahhh, I get it now. Thanks very much! :)

> Amanda manipulates tar to work just like dump.  And with both, amanda 
> schedules level 0s or level 1s (and, if necessary, level 2s, level 3s, 
> etc) according to dumpcycle and runspercycle.

Ok, so if I run another backup after this, presumably the dump level
should be higher, and kb should be much lower than 550814? I just want
to make sure I'm perfectly clear on this. :)