On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:43:13PM -0500, René Kanters wrote:
> I backup a small directory (/home/rene at about 2.1MB) and when I run  
> amdump I get messages with (excerpts):
[snip]
> i.e., the full size of my (compressed) /home/rene

You're running up against Amanda being too smart!

Since it seems that your data set is very small, it is doing a full
backup every time.  Why bother to make an incremental backup of
2.1MiB?

By default, Amanda must get a 10MiB savings before it will bump to the
next incremental level.  You can control the bumping with bumpsize,
bumppercent, bumpmult, and bumpdays.

The short, though, throw some real data at it and you'll see some real
performance!

-- 
Ross Vandegrift
ross AT kallisti DOT us

"The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who
make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians
have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine
man in the bonds of Hell."
        --St. Augustine, De Genesi ad Litteram, Book II, xviii, 37