On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:44:56AM +0200, Luis Rodrigues wrote:
> Today I got this in the report from amanda. In this mail server we use mbox 
> and the user just deleted some mails.
> How can I let amanda know to not report file size changes in this DLE?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luis
> 
> 
> sendbackup: start [mailserver.aa.bb:/var/mail level 0]
> sendbackup: info BACKUP=/bin/tar
> sendbackup: info RECOVER_CMD=/usr/bin/gzip -dc |/bin/tar -f... -
> sendbackup: info COMPRESS_SUFFIX=.gz
> sendbackup: info end
> ? gtar: ./jondoe: File shrank by 20955 bytes; padding with zeros
> | Total bytes written: 1180221440 (1.1GB, 5.4MB/s)
> sendbackup: size 1152560
> sendbackup: end
> \--------

To my knowledge, it is not possible on a DLE by DLE basis.
It would have to be compiled in and apply to all DLEs.

But, wasn't this just a one-time thing that only happened
because "jondoe" happened to be deleting mail at exactly 
the moment gtar happened to be copying the file?  Or have
you seen this regularly, possibly for the same file each time?

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