On Friday 28 July 2006 15:42, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> No it is not "wrong".  "some ... may" also includes zero dumps are left.

You are right, I overlooked the writting...

> I'd guess your DLE "omni:/home/mn" was dumping direct to tape,
> bypassing the holding disk.

Right, but I can't figure how why. I can't find any reference to holding disk 
(except for its location and size) in the config files. What is the policy of 
amanda for using/not holding disk? I've seen my amanda using the holding 
disk, probably with remote clients only.

> > Looking at the sendsize report for /home/mn we get:
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > sendsize[2154]: estimate time for /home/mn level 0: 45.958
> > sendsize[2154]: estimate size for /home/mn level 0: 11853650 KB
> > --------------------------------------------------
[...]
> When it began the 11575 mbyte
> was an estimate.  Coulda been smaller, coulda been bigger.  Tape
> coulda been 35400, maybe larger maybe smaller.  After the results
> are in we know your tape was bigger (35689 mbyte) and your dump
> was larger than 9514 mbyte (35689 - 26175).

I was assuming that the sendsize result was used by the planner to decide 
whether to dump it or not. It is not so?

Do you think I should worry about these errors? Do you advice me to reduce the 
tape size in config?

Thank you,

Cheers,

Rodrigo

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